Battulga says Mongolia ready to welcome flood-hit Russian children to summer camps

AKIPRESS.COM - Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga said on Thursday that Mongolia is ready to welcome up to 100 children from Russia's flood-hit region of Irkutsk to summer camps, Xinhua said with reference to President press office.
Battulga made the remarks when he sent a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the recent deadly floods in the Siberian region of Irkutsk.
"In addition, the Mongolian people have begun collecting money, food, warm clothes and other essentials in order to provide humanitarian aid for flood victims in the Irkutsk region," Battulga said in the message.
According to a statement by the Irkutsk regional division of the emergencies ministry, since June 25, 96 settlements of the region have been flooded, including 10,097 residential houses inhabited by 32,798 people, among which 7,938 were children. Medical and obstetric centers, schools and kindergartens were also affected.