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Locals use canoes to cross floods that cut off the road at Hamdaruku area in Tana River County. [Photo by Maarufu Mohamed/Standard]
The death toll in the floods in parts of Tana River County has risen to five after three days of heavy rains.
Yesterday morning at Bilbil on the Bura-Garissa highway, a seasonal river flowing into Tana River swept away two children who were swimming in a canal in the Bura Irrigation Scheme.
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