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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