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Dozens dead after dam bursts amid torrential rain in Kenya

Houses washed away and road cut off as dam collapses amid heavy rains and floods across country

At least 45 people died when a makeshift dam burst its banks near a southern town in Kenya’s Rift valley in the early hours of Monday, police said, as torrential rains and floods hit the country.

The disaster raises the total death toll over the March-May wet season in Kenya to more than 100, as heavier-than-usual rainfall pounds east Africa, compounded by El Niño weather pattern.

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