Liberia: Floods Overtake Several Communities

Two nights of torrential rains on Friday and Saturday, June 21-22, 2019, flooded at least 500 homes and business centers in communities in Montserrado County District #5, and forced residents to seek shelter elsewhere in the neighborhood, while others took their landlords to the police station in demand of compensation for their losses.

Some residents in the affected communities informed the Daily Observer that they had spent the entire Friday night bailing out water seeping into their homes from below ground amid the heavy and continuous down pour of rain that lasted through Saturday morning. Later during the day, according to some affected community members, the rain ceased and many saw this as a relief to their families. But, to their surprise, at 2:00 a.m. water again flooded their homes, forcing them out and leaving them homeless with several possessions lost or damaged by flood waters.

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