(29 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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To clarify that a police official initially told AP that a dam had collapsed but in a statement late Monday the Nakuru County said that the water mass that caused the flash floods was a clogged railway tunnel.
Please note updates story slug from KENYA DAM BURST AFTERMATH to KENYA FLOODS AFTERMATH. Also updates shotlist and storyline.
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Kamuchiri village, Mai Mahiu, Kenya – 29 April 2024
1. Wide of a stream flowing down from hills of Kijabe
2. Man moving mud-soaked mattress
3. Pan of people standing by flooded stream and debris
4. Pan of destroyed homestead
5. Man sawing through fallen tree
6. Bus stuck on uprooted trees, people standing nearby
7. Pan of valley and uprooted trees
STORYLINE:
Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
Police official Stephen Kirui initially told The Associated Press that the Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, had collapsed, carrying with it mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
But in a statement late Monday the Nakuru County said that the water mass that caused the flash floods was a clogged railway tunnel.
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