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Dam Collapse Leaves More Than 40 People Dead In Kenya

The current rainy season has been devastating for the whole East African region. More than 140 people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
Rescuers carry a victim's body from a residential area after the Patel dam burst its bank at Solai.

Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET

As residents of the small town of Solai in central Kenya describe it, the loud boom happened at around 9 p.m. on Wednesday.

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