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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 21:29:24 EDT
The following are news reports from this evening from the Associated Press
and Reuters news services.
Southwest Venezuela Floods Kill 5 (Associated Press)
Military troops in boats patroled flooded towns in southwestern Venezuela
Wednesday as air force cargo planes delivered tons of supplies for an
estimated 50,000 driven from their homes by the rising waters.
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Five dead, 50,000 displaced in flooding in southwest Venezuela (Associated
Press)
Troops patrolled inundated towns in boats and dinghies as air force cargo
planes delivered tons of supplies for an estimated 50,000 flood victims in
southwestern Venezuela.
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<http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020724/ap_wo_en_po/venezuela_floods_10>
Floods Kill 175 in South Asia (Associated Press)
Monsoon rains have killed at least 175 people in Nepal, Bangladesh and
India with swollen rivers surging through embankments, flooding thousands
of villages and triggering mudslides, relief officials said Wednesday.
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Fresh Floods in Eastern India, Bangladesh Kill 20 (Reuters)
At least 20 people are feared dead and the homes of about 1.5 million
people were flooded in eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh as rivers
overflowed after renewed monsoon rains.
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<http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020724/wl_nm/weather_southasia_floods_dc_1>
18 People Killed in Turkey Floods (Associated Press)
Floods and lightning caused by summer storms have killed at least 18 people
in Turkey, officials and news reports said Wednesday. Three other people
were missing.
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More than 1 million hit by monsoon floods in India's northeast (Associated
Press)
A 2-year-old boy slipped from his mother's arms and was swept away by
swirling waters on Wednesday in northeastern Assam state, where more than 1
million people have been affected by monsoon-fed floods this month, the
state's flood control minister said.
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