Flooding kills 57 in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa - Flooding after rivers burst their banks in the Afder and Liben areas of eastern Ethiopia have killed 57 people …

Addis Ababa - Flooding after rivers burst their banks in the Afder and Liben areas of eastern Ethiopia have killed 57 people and left more than 4,000 homeless, the state Ethiopian News Agency reported yesterday. Twenty-six were killed in Hargele, while the rest died at a series of villages along Ethiopia's borders with Kenya and Somalia.

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