DUSHANBE, February 14 (Itar-Tass) - The damage from snowfalls and avalanches in Tajik Pamir and in eastern regions of the republic is put at almost 700,000 dollars, sources from the Tajik Ministry for Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Monday.
These are just early figures, as there is still no communication with dozens of small villages, the sources said.
Over 310 residential and administrative buildings, including several schools, have been partially or fully destroyed, ministry sources stressed. Road services fail to cope with snow on highways as avalanches continue.
Last night, an avalanche cut off from the rest of the country a settlement 80 kilometres north of Dushanbe, where constructors of a transport tunnel live.
"The entire picture of the calamity will become more or less clear after members of a government commission fly over the damaged regions," the deputy minister for emergency situations, Abdurakhim Radzhabov, said.