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/ 27 March 2007

Sewage ‘tsunami’ kills four in Gaza

At least four Palestinians drowned in a ”sewage tsunami” on Tuesday when a water treatment reservoir burst, flooding a village in the northern Gaza Strip. The deluge, triggered by the collapse of a septic system, submerged dozens of homes in the Bedouin farming village of Umm al-Nasr beneath a cesspool of foul-smelling effluent.