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Hundreds flee floods in Ukraine after Nova Kakhovka dam breached

A resident makes her way along a flooded road after the walls of the Nova Kakhovka dam collapsed in Ukraine's Kherson region [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from settlements along the southern stretch of Ukraine’s Dnipro River after water burst through the breached Nova Kakhovka dam, submerging streets and town squares.

The collapse of the structure at the southern tip of the vast Kakhovka Reservoir on Tuesday unleashed a torrent of water, adding to the misery of thousands of people who have been caught on the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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