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Due to flooding in Houston can blow up a chemical plant Chemical plant in a flooded Houston in the next few days can catch fire or explode. 18фотографий18фотографий18фотографий Due to the heavy rains that followed the hurricane “Harvey”, at the company’s plant Arkema in Crosby is out of order cooling system chemicals. According to the company, to prevent a fire impossible. The Arkema plant stopped working on Friday, even before the hurricane. However, due to heavy rainfall — 102 cm — its territory was flooded and electricity supply were interrupted, the company said. Backup generators also flooded. The plant produces organic peroxides, and stored chemicals are dangerous at high temperatures. “Now substances can explode and cause a powerful fire, — quotes Reuters the head of the company Richard Rower. — High level of water and lack of electricity do not leave us any opportunity to prevent it”. The hurricane claimed

A group of tourists from Moscow lost in the time of alloy in Transbaikalia Moscow. August 31. INTERFAX.RU — EMERCOM Helicopter Mi-8 from Irkutsk is sent to search for the group of Moscow tourists in Kalarsky district of Zabaykalsky Krai, which during the rafting on mountain rivers has not been in touch, the press service of EMERCOM in the region. “By helicopter rescuers will inspect the route in accordance with the head of a group of geographic objects that tourists were planning to visit”, — is spoken in the message. The route is almost 300 kilometers and it takes place in remote areas, where the work of rescuers from earth is extremely difficult. The group was registered in the district administration. Thanks to this well-known search area.

Police arrested impacting on people in the center of Moscow trucker The driver of the truck that hit two people in the center of Moscow, is detained. The victims were hospitalized. Earlier it was reported that the culprit fled the scene. In Moscow detained the driver of MAZ, which brought down two pedestrians in the centre of Moscow and disappeared from a scene, have informed RBC in the press service of the Moscow Department of MIA. According to the interlocutor of the Agency, the driver was caught in the area Kapotnya. “At 20:10 at Bolshoi Karetny pereulok, building 4, the accident occurred. The driver, driving a car MAZ, I made arrival on two pedestrians, the scene disappeared. Currently, the police detained a car with a driver in the district Kapotnya” — said the Agency. According to the interlocutor of RBC, pedestrians hospitalized. At the scene are the traffic police check,

In Kiev kidnapped journalist of the First channel MOSCOW, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. A journalist of the First channel Anna Kurbatova was kidnapped in Kiev on Wednesday, RIA Novosti press-service channel. “Confirm (this info. — Approx. ed.)”, — said the Agency interlocutor. It is noted that the correspondent might delay the SBU. Earlier post about the kidnapping of the journalist appeared in the running line on TV channel “Russia 24”. The Kremlin has no information about the kidnapping Kurbatova, but will make every effort to clarify the situation, said press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. It became known yesterday that Kurbatova appeared in the database, the infamous Ukrainian site of the “Peacemaker”. Correspondent in recent years has been coverage of events in Ukraine. The last stories told about the Spanish expulsion of journalists from Kiev and about the parade in honor of independence Day in the Ukrainian capital

CNN showed the ruins of the capital of ISIS with drone CNN posted a video from the ruined capital of the terrorist group “Islamic state” — the Syrian city of raqqa. Footage posted on the website of the TV channel. CNN journalist managed to get into the city together with the Democratic forces of Syria (DSS) — the Union of Kurdish and Arab armed groups. Part of the Raqqa is already liberated from the jihadists, but the shooting there is still a threat. Estimates of DSS, the city still can’t get out about 20 thousand people. The number of militants opposing the liberators could reach a thousand. During the download an error has occurred. The assault on the city is from June. His capture is considered to be one of the main goals of the international antiterrorist coalition headed by USA, the leading military operations against extremists in Iraq and