Hungary offers disaster relief assistance to Georgia, said Péter Szijjártó, Hungarian Foreign Minister. According to the Hungarian FM, his Georgian counterpart Ilia Darchiashvili “accepted his offer with thanks.”

“In the past days, and even in the last hours, we have encountered several times the harsh manifestations of the weather that turned completely crazy. Storms, heavy rainfall and flash floods also have serious consequences in the remote parts of Europe.

In Georgia, the unprecedented rains also led to landslides in the northern part of the country, where such a catastrophe has never been seen before. Many have died and disappeared, enormous damages are left behind.

I expressed our sympathy to my Georgian colleague over the phone and offered Hungarian disaster relief assistance, if necessary. Ilia Darchiashvili accepted the offer with thanks, rated it as a true friendly gesture and pointed out that they would come to us if their own resources were exhausted,” he wrote on Facebook.

The death toll in the landslide-hit Shovi resort rose to eleven on August 4. Twenty-five people remain missing, while 210 were safely moved from the disaster zone.

A deadly landslide struck the resort on August 3.