Rainstorms in western Ukraine have killed three people and forced hundreds of others to evacuate their homes. The flooding has affected Ukraine’s western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zakarpattia and Lviv.

The three deaths occurred in the Verkhovyna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, an area that has been cut off by flooded roads.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov have visited the disaster zone – an area where one emergency service report said about 5,000 houses in 187 villages remained flooded early on June 24.