Kazakhstan blows up artificial dams as floods force mass evacuations – video

Local authorities in Kazakhstan have started blowing up artificial dams in an effort to lower water levels in flooded areas.

The deluge of meltwater has forced more than 110,000 people from their homes in Kazakhstan, Russia's Ural Mountains and Siberia as major rivers such as the Ural, which flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian, overwhelmed embankments