At least 70 people killed by flooding in Kenya as more rain is expected through the weekend
- At least 70 people have died in Kenya due to flooding and heavy rains since mid-March, according to a government spokesperson.
- Nairobi and other regions in Kenya have experienced severe flooding and heavy rains for weeks.
- In Makueni county, five bodies were recovered from a river after a lorry carrying them was swept off a submerged bridge.
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In Kenya, the death toll from the floods in recent times has risen to at least seventy, a government spokesperson has said. At the beginning of this week, there was still talk of 35 deaths. The East African country has been struggling with heavy rains and severe floods for weeks. The rain has particularly major consequences in densely populated slums in the capital Nairobi, where millions of people live. The natural disaster has washed away thou…
Meteorological services have warned that "very, very heavy" precipitation is expected until May in several parts of the country.
Heavy rains continued in East Africa on Friday, while economists in Kenya were expecting more rains until Sunday afternoon, especially in Nairobi. And media reports said that at least 60 people had been killed so far in an unusual rainy season this year. And the authorities did not specify the exact number of deaths by Friday afternoon. And the government reported in Tanzania, which is the southern country of Kenya, that on Thursday morning 150 …
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