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AT LEAST 32 PEOPLE DEAD IN STORM ON PERTUGESE ISLAND


A man is helped while trying to cross a flooded street in Funchal, the Madeira Island's capital
MADRID – Flooding and landslides swept away cars and knocked down houses as a violent storm killed at least 32 people Saturday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, a news agency reported.
  • The Lusa agency quoted the vice president of the Madeira regional government, Joao Cunha e Silva, as saying another 68 people have been hospitalized in the island's main city, Funchal.
  • Madeira is the main island of a Portuguese archipelago of the same name, in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa.
  • Floods tore down houses as the storm hit early Saturday. Roads were blocked by fallen trees and rocks carried by flood waters, and some bridges were also downed, Lusa said.
  • Phone lines were knocked out, forcing emergency rescue services to appeal over local radio stations for off-duty doctors and nurses to report for duty.
  • Local authorities called in employees to operate heavy machinery like bulldozers to clear roads and remove debris. People in low-lying areas of Funchal fled as flood waters rose, Lusa said.
  • Madeira regional president Alberto Joao Jardim spoke to European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, who is Portuguese, to appeal for emergency aid from the European Union.
  • Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates promised that help would be sent from the Portuguese mainland.
Source: AP
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