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Moscow – The death toll from the worst summer wildfires to hit Russia in a generation has risen to 34, officials said on Monday, as firefighters battled to prevent the flames claiming more lives and property.
Amid unusual public criticism that the authorities were slow to react to spreading fires last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was due to hold an emergency meeting with governors of the worst affected regions.
"According to current information, 34 people have been killed as a result of the fires," Vladimir Stepanov, the head of national centre for crisis management at the emergencies ministry, said on state television.
The previous death toll had stood at 30. It appeared that the increase in the death toll resulted from the discovery of more bodies around the region of Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday.
"In the last 24 hours the general dynamic is that the general number of fires is decreasing," Stepanov added.
Main tasks fulfilled
"The main task for us today – not allowing fires appearing in inhabited areas and prevent the deaths of people – has been fulfilled."
The emergencies ministry has deployed hundreds of thousands of workers along with 2 000 members of the armed forces to fight a disaster described by President Dmitry Medvedev as one that happens only "every 30 or 40 years."
The worst-hit regions have included the area around the city of Nizhny Novgorod in central Russia, Voronezh in southwestern Russia as well as the Moscow region itself.
At least 1 875 houses have been destroyed in fires, leaving more than 2 000 people homeless, the regional development ministry said on Sunday, with around about 128 000 hectares of land on fire.
But the authorities have insisted they now have the situation under control and Stepanov said 265 inhabited areas were "saved" from fires over the last 24 hours.
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