Yemen: Floods claim 61 lives

Yemen’s government says 61 people have been killed by the floods that swept through the south in the wake of a massive tropical storm.

Hamid el-Kharashi, a police chief in the remote southern province of Hadramut, says the death toll could rise further since scores of people are still missing and hundreds of families are homeless or trapped by the flood waters.

Rain continued to fall today throughout the country, though only lightly in the worst affected province of Hadramut. Getting relief supplies to those affected in the remote and rugged Yemeni hinterlands has been difficult with most roads washed out.