50,000 homeless after flash flood

Khartoum - Flash floods have made more than 50,000 people homeless and cut off power and water supplies and telephones in the…

Khartoum - Flash floods have made more than 50,000 people homeless and cut off power and water supplies and telephones in the northern Sudanese town of Dongola, newspapers reported yesterday.

The privately-owned Al- Sahafa daily quoted flood committee officials as warning of the danger of an epidemic from drinking water polluted by sewage.

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