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Floods kill 61

Yemen's government says 61 people have been killed by the floods that swept through the south in the wake of a massive tropical storm.

Hamid el-Kharashi, a police chief in the remote southern province of Hadramut, says the death toll could rise further since scores of people are still missing and hundreds of families are homeless or trapped by the flood waters. Rain continued to fall yesterday throughout the country, though only lightly in the worst affected province of Hadramut.

(China Daily 10/27/2008 page8)