Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered investigators to find out if enough was done to prevent 150 people being killed in floods in southern Russia, after flying to the region to deal with the first big disaster of his new presidency.
Some have described the force of the disaster in southern Krasnodar as being like a 'tsunami' and there are demands for officials to answer why the number of people killed was so high. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports.