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Mauritanian floods kill child, cause wide damage: report
16.08.2010 - AFP

NOUAKCHOTT — Heavy rain and widespread flooding in Mauritania have left one child dead and caused damage to bridges and homes, mainly in the southeast, the Mauritanian news agency AMI reported Monday. A girl was swept away by flood waters and drowned in the mountain town of Aioun, 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of Nouakchott, where houses were damaged by rain that reached 130 millimetres (more than five inches) in 24 hours. Two major bridges on the road between Nouakchott and Kiffa in the centre of the country were downed, closing the only highway between the east and the west of the nation on the western edge of the Sahara ... mehr

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