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Flooding kills 3 in Georgia

Georgia Materials 24 May 2009 17:14 (UTC +04:00)

The Emergency Situations Ministry says the victims were killed late Saturday when their car was swept off a flooded road and down a steep incline in the east of the country, AP repored.

The ministry said flooding also affected hundreds of acres (hectares) of farmland in the grape-growing Telavi region, and several neighborhoods on the outskirts of the capital, Tbilisi.

Floods occur frequently in the ex-Soviet nation.

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