Sania Toiken is a journalist in Almaty for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
Severe floods that have left many areas of Kazakhstan under water continue to force people from their homes with more than 110,000 people now evacuated. In the northern Kazakh city of Petropavl, several districts were submerged.
Kazakhstan has been hit by major flooding with local emergencies declared across the Central Asian state. Almost 16,000 people have been evacuated and at least 1,400 homes flooded.
