Three former public officials in Russia have been jailed after being convicted of negligence during floods that killed more than 150 people last year.
The tragedy happened on July 7 last year when scores of people in the southern town of Krymsk died after a mountain river flooded, causing the worst such disaster of the post-Soviet era.
The Abinsk Regional Court heard that no flood warning had been issued before the disaster because the officials "did not announce the emergency situation in time and did not warn and rescue people".
Former head of Krymsk district Vasily Krutko was sentenced to six years in a colony settlement - a facility where inmates have more freedom than in a penal colony but which still observe strict curfews.
The official number of deaths is 153 but others say up to 172 people died Former Krymsk mayor Vladimir Ulanovsky was sentenced to three-and-a-half years, while local emergency situations official Viktor Zhdanov was sentenced to four-and-a-half years.
Irina Ryabchenko, former head of the neighbouring village of Nizhnebakanskaya, which was also affected, received a suspended sentence of three-and-a-half years, according to a statement from the Russian prosecutor general.
After the tragedy, Krutko, Ulanovsky and Ryabchenko also ordered the creation of "official documents with false information about having issued a timely warning", a court statement said. The three were also convicted of forgery.
The prosecutor's statement cited a death toll of 153 people, although regional authorities said at the time that 172 people had died in the flood.
A young Russian mourns the loss of a friend Observers have called the catastrophe a failure not only on the part of local officials, but also the region's influential pro-Kremlin governor, Alexander Tkachev, and even President Vladimir Putin himself, accusing the authorities of a blatant disregard for human life.
Krymsk lies about 200 kilometres (120 miles) northwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
The conviction and sentencing of the officials comes as Russia battles new, record-breaking floods in the east that have forced authorities to evacuate more than 23,000 people and raised fresh questions about the government's readiness to handle natural disasters.
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