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Flash floods in Kenya have killed at least 81 and displace thousands

Torrential rains and flash floods have killed at least 81 people across Kenya this month, authorities said, as heavy downpours continue. In Kisumu County, entire villages have been submerged, with about 1,200 hectares of farmland destroyed and crops swept away.

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00:00Heavy rains and flash floods across Kenya have killed at least 81 people,
00:04with authorities warning Sunday the toll could rise as dawn pours continue.
00:09In the west, entire villages in Kisomo County have been submerged
00:13with floodwaters destroying farmland and sweeping away crops.
00:17Since the last few days, we've had the raging waters of Sondomiru River
00:22that overflooded its banks, and the river has really displaced over 3,000 families.
00:29We've lost quite a number of farmland with massive erosion,
00:33and the farm plants that we had planted, maize, beans, millet, vegetables, watermelon, bananas, and many others.
00:45As we are speaking now, I'm having people who have been moved to more than eight evacuation centers.
00:53Residents are fleeing with what little they can carry, many forced into overcrowded evacuations.
00:59centers, while others say they have nowhere left to go.
01:02We are migrating because the place where we were staying is badly flooded.
01:07We still don't know where we are going to get shelter with our animals
01:11because there is no house or home that is not flooded that we can say we can shelter in.
01:17All homes are flooded, and so for now we still don't know where to run for shelter with our animals.
01:25In Nyakachi, the West, children walked through Nihai water, residents scooped water from the inundated houses.
01:33We are still stuck here. We still don't know where we are going to stay.
01:39We still don't have an idea of where we are going.
01:43We are still stuck inside these waters with the school-edged children.
01:47Scientists say climate change is increasing the intensity of extreme weather,
01:52with East Africa facing more frequent floods and droughts.
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