The roaring sound of water pumps filled the deserted streets of the flood-stricken Russian city of Orenburg on Friday as people scrambled to heed official warnings to escape. The city of 550,000 about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow is grappling with a historic deluge after Europe's third-longest river, the Ural, burst its banks. Swiftly melting snow has already forced more than 120,000 people to evacuate in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan.
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