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RSOE EDIS - Situation Update No. 7 : Albania - Flood

RSOE EDIS

RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service


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Situation Update No. 7

Ref.no.: FL-20100104-24428-ALB

Situation Update No. 7
On 2010-01-11 at 04:49:01 [UTC]

Event: Flood
Location: Albania Region of Shkodra

Number of Evacuated: 3572 person(s)

Situation:

In Albania, more than two-thousand houses and ten-thousand hectares of land are flooded after days of torrential rains. The situation is the worst in central and southern parts of the country, where flood waters are raging through villages after several smaller rivers spilled over their banks. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Many countries in the region, including Italy and Greece have sent aid to Albania. Meanwhile, Bosnia is also suffering from days of torrential rains. More rains are forecast in the coming days.

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