Sultanate sends relief flights to flood-hit Yemen
President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday allocated $100 million in aid to flood-hit areas of southeast Yemen as the death toll from last week"s storms topped 70. A relief team rescued two children alive from rubble of a house at Tarim but uncovered 10 bodies of people from the same family who had all died in the floods, an official in Hadramaut province said. These victims take to 68 the number of deaths, while another six were struck by lightning. Many other people are still missing and thousands are without shelter, the official said. Rescue teams are continuing operations to help people affected by the flood, especially in isolated villages.