Floods Kill 78 People in South Africa After Record Rainfall
By and Matthew Hill
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Floods killed at least 78 people after record rainfall in South Africa's impoverished Eastern Cape province.
On June 9, a winter storm dropped 129 millimeters (5.1 inches) of rain on the town of Mthatha, close to Nelson Mandela's burial site, nearly doubling the previous record, according to preliminary data from the South African Weather Service. Elliot weather station recorded 160 millimeters, about four times the previous high in 1997.
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