Somalia floods kill seven, displace 200 families

At least seven people were killed in an overnight devastating flood in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, local government officials said yesterday.

Torrential rains, which started on Friday night and lasted about 10 hours touched off the floods that displaced more than two hundred families.

Nine houses were completely destroyed across various districts of Mogadishu, while six major tarmac roads were also damaged.

"Seven people died, two of them women," Salah Omar Hassan, the spokesman of the Banadir regional administration, said in a press conference.