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Flooding displaces nearly
40,000, kills 7 in Argentina
Nearly 40,000 people were forced
to abandon their homes and seven
others were killed after days of
heavy rain triggered flooding in
three Argentine provinces,
police and civil defense
authorities said on Saturday.
In the worst-hit Santa Fe
province, around 30,000 people
were evacuated in and around the
provincial capital and the
cities of Rosario and Canada de
Gomez, civil defense authorities
said.
Two men and a woman lost their
lives in Santa Fe after a house
collapsed and was washed away by
the swollen Parana River near
Rosario. The two men's bodies
were recovered on Friday by
coastguard boats and the woman's
body was retrieved on Saturday.
In Entre Rios province, an
elderly farmer drowned in the
Gualeguay River when he tried to
rescue his livestock from
floodwaters, according to civil
defense officials.
About 8,000 people were driven
from their homes in Entre Rios,
in eastern Argentina, and there
were also some 400 evacuees in
central Cordoba province.
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