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dam-l Floods in Durban/LS
>From the BBC:
Thursday, 23 December, 1999, 08:52 GMT
Serious flooding in South Africa
Serious flooding caused by heavy rains around the South African
town of Durban has led to the deaths of sixteen people.
Most of the dead were crushed in mudslides or drowned when
swollen rivers burst their banks.
Police say some two-thousand people, mainly from low-lying
shanty areas in the eastern coastal town, have been left
homeless.
One local government official estimated repairs to roads and
bridges would cost at least six-million dollars.
Torrential rains have been falling since Tuesday.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
Tel. (510) 848 1155 Fax (510) 848 1008
http://www.irn.org
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