The UB Post-Leading English News

All passenger trains were stopped temporarily due to certain parts of the north-bound railways have been damaged in the flood. A passenger train that left Ulaanbaatar for Erdenet and Darkhan cities on Wednesday night were stopped in Selenge province’s Mandal soum, from where local transport authorities in Erdenet mobilized dozens of public buses to take the passengers.

In Ulaanbaatar, Songinokhairkhan District has been most affected where west-bound inter-city bus station and over 20 families have been flooded. Around 40 local volunteers and emergency officers have worked to remove flash flood waters.

“We have been living here since 1995, and have never seen such flooding. But someone has blocked the rainwater drainpipe holes by building a hard rock fence over it,” said B.Batdorj, a local resident, who managed to move his belongings on his house’s roof. Flood water came to his house through the house windows. Floodwater removal pipe holes are usually blocked by household garbage’s disposed outdoor disorderly, local residents said.

The government of Ulaanbaatar urged the households living in flood-risky areas of the city to move into a new settlement area with no charge. But the people are not likely to settle down in the remote place, that has no public school, kindergarten and bus transportation.

The meteorology institute warned general public about heavy rainfalls in upcoming few days as the water level of major rivers have been increased to a level of flood risky.