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Floods in Elegu Town Council, Amuru, drive over 1,000 residents into URA warehouse; child drowns

Humanitarian & Crises Single source Amuru 8 Nov 2020 Severity: 4/5

According to The Independent, citing URN, River Unyama burst its banks on Saturday night, flooding Elegu Town Council, and on Sunday night over 1,000 residents moved into a Uganda Revenue Authority warehouse for shelter. The town council chairperson said a two-year-old girl drowned on Sunday afternoon, and the Amuru District Chairperson said the district had no emergency budget to respond.

Single source: Reported by one outlet; not yet independently confirmed.

Numbers

1 killed

Sources

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