On Moscow’s south side, the rescuers evacuated about 80 people from flooded cars and also helped a regular bus drive out of the flooded road section," the local emergencies services division reported. "No one was hurt in the incident."
On the west side of the Russian capital, the rescuers evacuated drivers and passengers of three cars, which had driven into the heavily flooded section on Ochakovskoye highway.
On the Leningradskoye highway, a major Moscow thoroughfare, a fallen tree smashed a parked car and ruptured street light cables.
In the Lyubertsy district, to the east of Moscow, about 800 private homes have been flooded.
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