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Kenya: Flood: 2002/05/01 Country Information on DRR

Period 2002/05/01
Country or District Kenya
Event Type Flood
Outline at least six people died and five people are missing when their village was swept away by floods in central Kenya.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others
OCHA Situation Report No.1 2002/05/13
Dead: at least 53 persons

Displaced: 150,000 people
BBC news 2002/05/01
Dead: 6 people

Missing: 5 people

Related Links

Report/Articles

CNN news 2002/05/08
Floods kill at least 20 in Kenya

OCHA Situation Report No.1 2002/05/13
At least 53 persons were killed.

BBC News 2002/05/07
Nairobi parched despite downpour

BBC News 2002/05/09
Devastating floods hit Kenya

Red Cross and Red Crescent 2002/05/06
Correspondence to the flood of Kenya

Reuters (Japanese) 2002/05/08
The flood and the landslide killed 20 people in Kenya.

BBC news 2002/05/01
11 feared dead in Kenya landslides

Geographycal Data

US Geological Survey Map 2002/05/13
Kenya Province Boundary