Fiji counts flood cost
Mopping up is under way in Fiji after the week-end floods which wiped out villages and cut supply services on the main Fijian island.
A spokesman for the Fijian emergency services, Mr Eliki Bomani, said that the death toll was confirmed at 12, with the unofficial toll at 14.
Mr Bomani said: "It will take two weeks to a month before the cleaning up operations will be finished. Many villages have been totally devastated by landslides caused by the floodwaters and other villages are unrecognisable and choked with silt and debris.”
Some 19,000 people are receiving aid and 24 evacuation centres have been set up. Many would need food aid for six months after the loss of their crops. “Suva in particular faces serious water problems owing to the loss of a pumping station that supplies about half of the city’s water services,”
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