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North Africa Algeria Algeria floods kills 13 in Ghardaia
Oct
02
2008
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 Floods have killed at least 13 people in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia in the Sahara, the government of the north African country said on Thursday.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, in remarks to the official APS state news agency, said that between 300 and 600 homes had been inundated since heavy rains began on Tuesday around the town on the northern edge of the Sahara desert. "We unfortunately cannot exclude the possibility of other victims," he added after making an inspection flight over the town 700 km (437 miles) south of the capital Algiers. He said gas and electricity had been cut in the town of about 100,000 people and food supplies had been flooded and probably rendered useless. Ghardaia is one of several fortified Mozabite Berber medieval settlements in the M'Zab valley, a region listed as a U.N. World Heritage Site and frequented by European tourists. Set as favorite Bookmark
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