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Putin tours area of Siberia innundated with floods.

(24 May 2001) 1. Aerial shot Lena River 2. President Putin's plane landing 3. Lensk airport building 4. President's plane taxiing 5. Putin exits plane and shakes hands with local officials 6. Wide shot of helicopter 7. Aerial shot of flooded Lensk 8. People paddling down city street in canoe 9. Flooded city street, truck in water 10. Presidential helicopter 11. Putin walking 12. People cooking around camp fire 13. Putin talking to locals 14. Putin in meeting 15. Official pointing to map 16. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: "According to (Yakutsk) republic officials over 40,000 people have suffered only in this region. Many people are without shelter. We are prepared to provide for these people for three, maximum four months but specifically housing." 17. Officials 18. Meeting 19. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: "I am satisfied with the Ministry of Emergency Situations' work. The problem is that proper maintenance work has not been undertaken for the past decade." 20. Woman cooking over campfire 21. City street 22. Truck ploughing through a wall of water 23. Truck on flooded street 24. People walking through knee-deep water 25. Man removing water from leaky boat STORYLINE: Russian President Vladimir Putin toured a remote Siberia region on Thursday that has been devastated by floods and promised to find federal funds to help rebuild homes destroyed by the rushing waters. Ice jams have clogged the powerful Lena River in Yakutiya and caused it to overflow, resulting in a week of misery for residents of towns spread along the inland artery. Putin blamed the flooding in part on the fact that the river had not been dredged near populated areas in decades. On Wednesday, the waters surged past the region's biggest city, Yakutsk, and began to fall. Villages downstream are still under threat, as emergency workers have not destroyed all the ice jams clogging the river. The flood last week ravaged Lensk, a town of 26,000, before invading some outlying neighbourhoods in Yakutsk. It has killed six people and left at least two missing. Siberian rivers flood regularly because they flow from south to north. The snow that melts in the south, where the spring thaw begins earlier, runs into ice in the still-frozen north. This year an unusually frigid winter and a warm spring combined to create a deluge, the likes of which authorities haven't seen in Siberia for a century. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...