14:49, 6 April 2026

The death toll from the flood in Dagestan has risen to four.

Evacuation of people during flooding in Dagestan. Photo: Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan

The body of a 5-year-old girl was found in the Derbent district.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on April 5, 358 residents were evacuated from flood zones in six villages in the Derbent district, most of them were placed with relatives. Also evacuated were 150 children from the "Sunny Beach" camp in the Karabudakhkent district.

On April 5, the Gejukha dam in the Derbent district collapsed, washing several cars off the highway. Rescuers pulled seven people from the water, two of whom died in the hospital. Another two people are missing. In Makhachkala, residents of the Palmira microdistrict, which was in the flood zone, and of houses on Aivazovsky Street were evacuated due to the threat of collapse of a six-story residential building.

The body of a girl who went missing along with her grandmother during the natural disaster has been found in the Derbent district. The search for the woman continues. Police are establishing the precise personal information of the victims, RIA Dagestan quotes Elman Allahverdiyev, head of the Derbent district.

"The body of a 5-year-old girl was discovered near the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district. The girl is from the village of Velikent. The child was swept away by the current after the water level rose on a section of the federal highway near the village of Mamedkala," a source in the district administration's press service told Interfax.

As a reminder, a state of emergency is in effect in 12 municipalities of Dagestan due to flooding that began in late March. Rains triggered a new flood on April 5. In particular, in Makhachkala, sections of city streets and the area around the Primorskaya substation, which supplies electricity to residents of the Reduktorny settlement and the Palmira microdistrict, were flooded.

In Dagestan, flooding damaged residential buildings, appliances, furniture, and cars. Makhachkala residents complained of problems with electricity and water supplies, transportation accessibility, and a lack of communication with emergency services. Dagestan and Chechnya were hardest hit by the natural disaster in the North Caucasus, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026".

The Caucasian Knot has compiled materials about flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/422228