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Caribbean & Central America - May 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)
SURINAME: Huge floods cause devastation
Heavy rainfall since 1 May led to massive flooding which has killed three, injured 37,000 and left another 22,000 people homeless. Central and south-eastern parts of the country have been designated 'disaster areas'. At its peak flooding covered 30,000 square kilometres mainly affecting the Upper Suriname River and Tapahony, Lawa and Marowijne rivers. During the heaviest rainfall the water level rose by nearly 15ft.
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