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NewsWhore
07-06-2011, 02:30 PM
The heavy rains that have fallen all over the country since last week have caused the death of a teenage boy, the displacement of more than 5,310 people, affected more than 2,307 houses and cut off 16 places according to a report released yesterday from the Emergency Operations Center (COE). Most people who had to seek lodging in shelters and homes of friends were in the province of Santo Domingo. Areas in San Cristobal and the National District were also under Red Alert for flooding and mudslides.

Diario Libre said that the young man who was killed was named as Eduardo Ramirez, 14, who died on Monday night when a house on the Prolongation Venezuela in Los Mina Viejo collapsed.

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