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Equipped with inflatable boats, Ukrainian military and police forces evacuate Kherson residents from the flooded areas of the city, following the collapse of Russian-held Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine is evacuating thousands after the dam's destruction unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and the city of Kherson. Both Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the incident. IMAGES
Images of emergency workers at a dam in northern India that was damaged after a chunk of glacier broke up and unleashed a devastating flash flood. It killed at least a dozen people and left more than a hundred missing. IMAGES
At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks overnight near the Kenyan town of Mai Mahiu just north of the capital Nairobi, as torrential rains and floods battered the country. IMAGES
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES
France's largest squat - which has housed up to 450 migrants, most of them legal migrants according to associations - is being evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris, 100 days ahead of the Olympic Games. IMAGES