Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Killer floods compound misery in southern Somalia
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baby 6Posted by Beewitch Posted by Alfie
(SAPA-AFP - M & G) from Somalia.
At least eight people, including three children, were swept away and drowned in southern Somalia early on Wednesday as a river burst its banks following torrential downpours, elders said.
Thousands of people fled their homes for higher ground and, in addition to the confirmed deaths, several dozen people were unaccounted for in villages along the Juba River in Somalia's Gedo region, they said.
The river, already swollen by heavy rains, overflowed overnight, inundating numerous small villages Gedo's Garbaharey division, about 350km north-west of Mogadishu, they said.
"The casualty figure is eight people, including three children, dead from villages around Garbaharey," said Mohamed Hirsi Raghe, an elder in the flood-affected Bardheere district. Read More...
baby 6Posted by Beewitch Posted by Alfie
(SAPA-AFP - M & G) from Somalia.
At least eight people, including three children, were swept away and drowned in southern Somalia early on Wednesday as a river burst its banks following torrential downpours, elders said.
Thousands of people fled their homes for higher ground and, in addition to the confirmed deaths, several dozen people were unaccounted for in villages along the Juba River in Somalia's Gedo region, they said.
The river, already swollen by heavy rains, overflowed overnight, inundating numerous small villages Gedo's Garbaharey division, about 350km north-west of Mogadishu, they said.
"The casualty figure is eight people, including three children, dead from villages around Garbaharey," said Mohamed Hirsi Raghe, an elder in the flood-affected Bardheere district.
