Somalia: Downpour disrupts traffic in Mogadishu

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MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 16, 2015 (Garowe Online)-Heavy rains that lasted 24 hours brought vehicular traffic to standstill, waterlogging low-laying areas in Mogadishu on Thursday, Garowe Online reports.

Photographic images taken from several scenes show cars floating in high-depth waters on account of flash floods.

Downpour is said to have damaged some sections of state highways in Mogadishu, forcing hundreds to stay indoors.

Somalia Government offices-bound commuters are among those disrupted by heavy rains.

Meanwhile, thunderstorm left two teenage boys dead in Hareri Adle village which lies a few kilometres away from agriculture-rich town of Balad. 

GAROWE ONLINE 

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