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DATE: MONDAY, August 9, 1993                   TAG: 9308090088
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CARACAS, VENEZUELA                                LENGTH: Short

VENEZUELAN STORM KILLS AT LEAST 99

Tropical Storm Bret lashed the Caribbean coast with unexpected fury Sunday, touching off mudslides and floods that killed at least 99 people in shantytowns around Caracas.

Enrique Aponte, director of a morgue in the capital of Caracas, said most of the dead were children who suffocated when their homes collapsed.

More than 300 people were injured and 4,000 left homeless, officials said.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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