Mudslide destroys bridges, hits tourist centre in Kazakhstan

07.07.2006
    A large mudslide mudflow destroyed five bridges in the Almaty mountains. Forty-eight tourists have been evacuated from the Sarbaz hotel complex, the Kazakhstan Emergencies Ministry reported on Friday.     Several waves of flowing mud swept through the Alma-Arazan gorge, the basin of the Bolshaya Almatinka River. The volume of the mud and...