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The various towns and villages in the south of Suriname in the past couple of days to deal with flood damage. This is due to the heavy rains in the Lawa/Tapanahonygebied, causing rivers to burst their banks act. The water in the villages along the river, under the water, as you can see in the video below, from the village of ‘Da-san, be, de, mi’.
The current situation is not as bad as in 2006, when the whole of the inland villages are flooded in were. The local settlement structure store, but with the alarm system. As the water continues to rise, the people of some of the low-lying villages need to be evacuated.
The high water also causes problems in the control of the COVID-19. Herman Jintie, executive director of the Medical Mission said, yesterday, that the towns and villages in the south of tentative, very rough, due to the many rain showers. Most of the airstrips are currently closed.
Yesterday, he gave DNV-managing director, major, Gwendoline Babel, too, that the people of the residential areas to the south of this country, who are stranded in the capital, Paramaribo, and for the time being not to go back to the house, they will be provided with the packages.
Watch this video on the 17th of June and made it on our Instagram channel (HD TV):
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