Around the World Today 17/01/10

[Watch Officer Bess]

01/17/2010 17:16 EST

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SCOTLAND: Flooding led to a landslide beside a major route in Dumfries and Galloway and forced the closure of several other Scottish roads. The A76 was closed at Kirkconnel and between Cumnock and New Cumnock due to the landslide, but both stretches are now open. The Whitesands area in Dumfries remains closed due to the risk of the River Nith flooding.

MALAYSIA: Flood situation in Kota Marudu worsened as heavy rain that persisted since Thursday, forced an estimated 1,600 people to be evacuated and placed at relief centres. Kota Marudu Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said the authorities, led by the district office which had set up a disaster relief committee, placed flood victims at seven evacuation centres and eight shelter homes.

IRAN: Two earthquakes which struck in the same area of southwestern Iran overnight damaged about 150 houses, an official said on Sunday. The quakes of magnitude 4.9 and 4.1 respectively occurred near the town of Andimeshk in Khuzestan province.

INDONESIA: A landslide has isolated seven villages in Kupang regency, East Nusa Tenggara, said a local official on Sunday. Kupang public works agency head Joao Soares Mariano said the landslide cut off road in Nekamese district. "Seven villages have been isolated. There is no alternative road to the villages," he said. He added he had dispatched a team to build a temporary road to the villages.

PHILIPPINES: A Philippine official says a 5-year-old girl was killed and 4,000 people were left homeless in a fire that razed a squatters' colony near the main port in the capital. Senior Fire Officer Emmanuel Gaspar says 500 shanties were gutted by a fire that broke out late Saturday at Manila's Baseco Compound, a crowded slum along the rim of Manila Bay.

by Arthur Rabjohn CEM

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