{"id":42851,"date":"2020-06-05T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42851"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:23:45","slug":"uae-confirms-659-new-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42851","title":{"rendered":"UAE confirms 659 new coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAL-MUKALLA: Heavy rains and flash floods hit provinces in southern Yemen on Wednesday and Thursday, killing five people, displacing hundreds of families and isolating villages, local government officials told Arab News.<\/p>\n

\nThe heavy rain that began on Wednesday in Yemen’s southern province of Hadramout triggered flash floods that killed five shepherds in the Henan valley and damaged farms.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe five young men went to the valley to bring back their camels and sheep before floods washed them away,\u201d Hesham Al-Souaidi, a local government official, told Arab News by telephone on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\nLocal authorities and residents found three bodies and are still searching for the other two.<\/p>\n

\nAl-Souaidi said that flood waters destroyed farms and killed a large number of livestock in the agricultural Wadi Hadramout.<\/p>\n

\nSouthern Yemeni provinces have been bracing for the tropical depression since Saturday, when it hit Oman\u2019s southern city of Salalah, as the country\u2019s National Meteorological Center issued alerts, urging Yemenis to avoid traveling during the the storm and to avoid flood courses.<\/p>\n

\nIn coastal parts of Hadramout, hundreds of families living near flood channels were forced to flee to after flooding reached unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n

\nAmen Barezaeg, a local government official assigned by the Hadramout governor to lead a relief committee, told Arab News that his team has documented the displacement of 450 families from Mayfa Hajer district alone, adding that the floods damaged roads, farms and isolated many remote areas in the province.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe are now working on reopening roads to reach the isolated villages. The damage is huge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nFlash floods displaced dozens of families, washed away hundreds of palm trees and damaged dozens of houses in Hajr town, west of the city of Al-Mukalla, Hadramout province capital.<\/p>\n

\nIn some areas of Hadramout, residents said the floods were more destructive than those caused by cyclones over the last five years.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe have never seen floods like this. Only the floods in 1996 were as strong as these,\u201d Mohammed Bahamel, a journalist from Boroum Mayfa village, west of Al-Mukalla, told Arab News.<\/p>\n

\nHeavy rains triggered flash flooding that wreaked similar havoc in Shabwa, Abyan and Aden, but with no reported casualties, according to local officials.<\/p>\n

\nA government official in Shabwa province told Arab News that the floods washed away farms, isolated villages and damaged several houses.<\/p>\n

\nIn Aden, bulldozers were seen clearing mud from the streets as government officials inspected damage caused by the rain.<\/p>\n

\nIn April, the internationally recognized government declared Aden, the interim capital of Yemen, a \u201cdisaster\u201d area after torrential rains and heavy flooding killed more than 10 people and damaged infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\nLocal health officials and residents say that the latest rainfall may set the stage for the spread of the coronavirus and other diseases that killed more than 1,000 people in May.<\/p>\n

\nWednesday\u2019s floods destroyed the main road that links Hadramout province with Aden, disrupting movement of medical teams and vital medical supplies, including testing kits, officials said.<\/p>\n

\nMeteorologists predicted that the rains would disappear on the weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cRemnants of the tropical depression continue to produce rain across southwest Yemen. Rain will wane over the area on Friday,\u201d Jason Nicholls, a meteorologist for AccuWeather, said on Twitter on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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