Kenya flooding kills 18 and affects 54,000 households
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Updated · The Associated Press · May 3
Kenya flooding kills 18 and affects 54,000 households
11 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · May 3
Police said most deaths over the past week were drownings, while the Interior Ministry said 6,000 affected households were in Nairobi.
Dozens of schools and hospitals flooded, 17 roads were cut off, and mudslides displaced thousands in the western Rift Valley.
Residents downstream of the Tana and Athi rivers were told to move to higher ground as dam levels rose, with heavy rain forecast into mid-May after more than 100 deaths by end-March.
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