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 by Staff Writers Panama City (AFP) Aug 10, 2020
Eleven people from one family died Sunday in Panama when their home was swept away in a flash flood as they slept, officials said. Nine of them were minors, said Carlos Rumbo, head of the national civil protection service. Two other people are missing in the sudden rise of the Bejuco River in Veraguas province west of Panama City. President Laurentino Cortizo expressed his condolences on Twitter. The civil protection service had warned Sunday of heavy storms with lightning and gusting winds in much of the Central American country.
Sudan rains and floods claim 20 more lives Heavy rains typically hit Sudan between June and October each year, and this week the country has been badly battered by the downpour. "20 people have died and 13 have been injured while 345 houses were destroyed or badly damaged" across the country Sunday, the civil defence said. The latest toll brings to 35 the number of people killed since the end of July and to more than 7,000 the number of houses destroyed or damaged as a result of heavy rains and flooding. The UN said on Wednesday that more than 50,000 people had been affected by the flooding. The civil defence also reported Sunday that it had dispatched helicopters and supplies to eastern Sudan where a group of miners are stranded due to rising waters.
Five dead, one missing as floods hit Greek island The eight-month-old baby was found dead in a house in the village of Politika on Sunday, a fire service spokesman said. The baby's parents were unharmed. Hours earlier, a man and woman, both in their 80s, were found unconscious by firefighters in two houses in the same village, the spokesman said. They were confirmed as dead at the hospital. Deputy minister for civil protection Nikos Hardalias had earlier said five people had died and two were missing. But a spokesman for the local emergency services told AFP later in the day that "a woman has been found alive, the rescue workers are looking for the second missing person, a man." The ANA news agency said a helicopter had spotted the missing woman, who had been swept away by the floodwaters from her home in the village of Bourtsi. The two other people who died, a 74-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman, were also from Bourtsi, the agency reported. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis voiced his "profound pain for the loss of lives" and said he would visit Evia, Greece's second largest island after Crete, on Monday. - 'A nightmare' - Torrents of water blocked roads in the west of Evia, which lies about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Athens. Some tourists were unable to leave one campsite on the island, ANA reported. "We are experiencing a nightmare, we are using every possible means" to combat the floods, said Ana Fanis Spanos, a lawmaker from the central Greece region. Storm Thalia battered several regions of mainland Greece Saturday, though the weather was improving on Sunday. Hundreds of homes were flooded in Politika and several surrounding villages. Blocked roads prevented fire trucks from reaching the affected sites. Two rivers burst their banks and filled roads with mud, local authorities said. The ground floors of many houses were flooded. About 100 firefighters and two helicopters as well as the coastguard were deployed to rescue those trapped. "Last year we had fires, this year it's floods," one resident of the village of Psachna told ERT television. Flooded homes are a frequent occurrence in Greece due to a lack of adequate controls over construction and planning. In November 2017, floods killed 24 people in Mandra, a village in an industrial region 30 kilometres west of Athens. Torrents of mud poured down over thousands of buildings, homes, shops and factories.
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