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Elsewhere in the Dominican Republic, two rivers burst their banks and swept away the village of Villa Altagracia, about 40km outside the capital, Santo Domingo. This took the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel's downpours on the Caribbean country and neighbouring Haiti above 90 yesterday. The...

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Published inThe Courier-mail
Main Author German Marte IN SANTO DOMINGO
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brisbane, Qld Nationwide News Pty Ltd 02.11.2007
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De Leon, Mary
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Summary:Elsewhere in the Dominican Republic, two rivers burst their banks and swept away the village of Villa Altagracia, about 40km outside the capital, Santo Domingo. This took the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel's downpours on the Caribbean country and neighbouring Haiti above 90 yesterday. The Dominican Republic's official toll rose to 56 deaths with 27 missing, as rescue teams reached villages cut off by raging rivers and inundated by chest-high floods. Unofficial reports put the dead much higher. Noel strengthened a little over water after emerging off Cuba's northern shore, but was not expected to become a hurricane as it headed for the Bahamas, the US National Hurricane Centre said last night.
ISSN:1322-5235