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Helen Update 10-02-2006Posted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Alfie
(AFP) from Ethiopia.
The death toll from devastating floods in south-west Ethiopia soared to 364 on Wednesday, police said, bringing to almost 900 the number killed or missing in raging waters nationwide this month.
Authorities said they feared for the worst and were preparing for the possibility that several hundred more may have drowned from weekend flooding in the remote Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's state.
"We are expecting the death toll to increase and we are preparing ourselves for more bodies, maybe even hundreds more," regional police spokesperson Daniel Gezhegn told Agence France-Presse shortly after the recovery of 170 more bodies.
"With the discovery of 170 bodies today, the death toll has now reached 364," said Tegaye Mununhe,...
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Helen Update 10-02-2006Posted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Alfie
(AFP) from Ethiopia.
The death toll from devastating floods in south-west Ethiopia soared to 364 on Wednesday, police said, bringing to almost 900 the number killed or missing in raging waters nationwide this month.
Authorities said they feared for the worst and were preparing for the possibility that several hundred more may have drowned from weekend flooding in the remote Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's state.
"We are expecting the death toll to increase and we are preparing ourselves for more bodies, maybe even hundreds more," regional police spokesperson Daniel Gezhegn told Agence France-Presse shortly after the recovery of 170 more bodies.
"With the discovery of 170 bodies today, the death toll has now reached 364," said Tegaye Mununhe,...
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