Dam fails in Puerto Rico, 70,000 told to evacuate


People line up to buy petrol in San Juan, Puerto Rico, yesterday. Attempts to refuel at Ponce de Leon Avenue, the main roads in San Juan, caused heavy traffic problems and the intervention of security officials. Puerto Rico is starting to reconstruct after damage wreaked by the passage of Hurricane Maria that left at least 12 people dead. – EPA pic, September 23, 2017.

SOME 70,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes yesterday  after a rain-swollen dam in Puerto Rico failed in the latest disaster caused by Hurricane Maria.

With the death toll from the storm at 33 across the Caribbean, the National Weather Service office in San Juan issued a flash flood warning for people living along the Guajataca River in the northwest of the island and said the 1920s dam was about to collapsing altogether.


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