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GLIDE Record
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Event:
FF Flash Flood
Number:
2008-000178
Country:
DZA Algeria
Location:
Ghardaia
Date (YMD):
2008-10-2
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Information Source:
Reuters, AFP
Comments:
Floods have killed at least 13 people in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia in the Sahara. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, in remarks to the official APS state news agency, said that between 300 and 600 homes had been inundated since heavy rains began on Tuesday around the town on the northern edge of the Sahara desert.
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