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Two women perished as flood deaths continue in Yemen
[The Source: /www.sabanews.net/hadhramaut.info - 11/04/2009]
People in Amran province have found the
bodies of two women who were killed as floods caused by heavy rains have recently swept across the al-Fara'a valley in the province. Eyewitnesses said that the two women were returning home when they tried to cross the valley but their attempts went in vein due to strong Heavy rains continue to fall in many parts of the republic claiming lives and submerging agricultural Over the last few weeks, over a dozen people were reported killed and others injured after floods swept through many areas in the country. Some deaths and injuries were caused by either floods or associated Last year, over 90 people were reported killed and more than 2000 house totally destroyed as heavy rains lashed several parts of the republic, mainly the eastern provinces of Hadramout and Lands were submerged with losses estimated at more that a billion dollars
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