A flash flood has killed 125 people in remote southern Ethiopia
Aug. 14, 2006

A flash flood has killed 125 people in remote southern Ethiopia a week after more than 250 died in a similar disaster in the east of the country, police said on Monday.

"The death toll is 125 with more than 870 homes destroyed," Inspector Daniel Gezahenge, a spokesman for the southern region police force, told Reuters by telephone. An official with the state-run Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency said Desenetch and Njangache districts, as well as Omorate town, were swamped when the Omo River burst its banks on Sunday. "Many villagers are still surrounded by flood water," he said, adding that a DPPA team was heading to the area, some 745 miles [1,200 kilometers] south of the capital Addis Ababa. Flash floods typically hit lowland areas after heavy rains drench Ethiopia's highlands in the June-August rainy season. More than 250 people were killed and some 250 remain missing in eastern Ethiopia after the Dechatu River swamped the commercial town of Dire Dawa last week.

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