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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) reported a series of incidents occuring during the yellow-level weather alert on Tuesday.

Dr Allen Sammy, chairman of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation, said flooding in areas under the corporation began at the Dabiedial Road Junction, and all four major junctions along the Penal Rock Road were also affected.

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) reported a series of incidents caused by the yellow-level weather alert on Tuesday. There was one reported incident in the north-west region where a tree fell in Upper Santa Cruz at Sam Boucaud.

Members of the disaster management unit (DMU) of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation spent hours helping burgesses affected by the flooding on Thursday evening and Friday, said the corporation’s chairman.

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