300 feared dead in northeast Somalia storm, floods [1]
Presstv.com - 13 November 2013
Picture released on November 12, 2013 by the African Union information services shows an aerial view of flooding in and around Jowhar town on November 12, 2013.
Some 300 people are feared dead in north-eastern Somali region of Putland following a fierce storm and days of heavy floods in the region, the local government says.
"Torrential rains, high wind speeds and flooding has created a state of emergency, with 300 persons feared dead, hundreds others unaccounted for, and countless livestock lost," the government said in a statement on Wednesday.
The death toll was not independently confirmed; however weather experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that the flooding was severe.
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