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Vaquero
05-24-2004, 08:50 PM
We've(VI) been getting some serious rain for the past week and just logged into Yahoo News and saw there was serious flooding in DR with 43 casualties and 450 flooded out houses. Hope you guy are doing OK?!

Jimmydr
05-24-2004, 10:28 PM
Dominican Republic Storm Floods Kill 43

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By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Floods unleashed by torrential
rains killed at least 43 people in the Dominican Republic as rivers
rushed over their banks and hundreds of homes were damaged, an
official said Monday.



At least 40 people were killed in the western town of Jimani near the
Haitian border after a river flooded part of the town Sunday,
National Emergency Commission director Radhames Lora Salcedo told The
Associated Press.


No further details were immediately available.