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Floods kill 14 people

    JOHANNESBURG

    Flooding in the southern part of Angola has killed about 14 people, the independent Catholic radio station ‘Radio Ecclesia’ said on Thursday.

    According to the radio station more than 5,000 hectares around the Benguela town of Dombe Grande on the Coporol River had been covered by water, with an estimated 8,000 farmers now without work. It quoted the Angolan government as saying that it planned to distribute corrugated metal to provide shelter to those left homeless by the floods.

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