Six People Die, 20,000 Evacuated in Flooding
From Times Wire Reports
Flooding from the rain-swollen Zambezi River has killed at least six people in northern Namibia and forced 20,000 to be evacuated, officials said.
Razia Essack-Kauaria, secretary-general of the Namibia Red Cross Society, said: “It is a really bad situation. They are living in water, their homes are surrounded.” The floods are the country’s worst since 1958, authorities say.
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