71.   A police helicopter hovered overhead and dropped flares as hundreds of soldiers and police flooded the area.

72.   Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the capital or surrounding provinces after rivers spilled over dykes and flooded large areas.

73.   Three major rivers in the area overflowed their banks after the temblors flooding several areas.

74.   Officials later called off search efforts due to torrential rains that threatened to flood the area.

75.   Police helicopters hovered overhead and dropped flares as hundreds of soldiers and police flooded the area.

76.   Radio Kiribati said the tides have flooded residential areas, pigpens, gardens and roads.

77.   Several days of unusually heavy rain caused a dammed river to overflow its banks overnight, flooding surrounding areas, the radio said.

78.   The area meanwhile was flooded with arms, held by the Hutu militia who had fled to Zaire along with the Hutu refugees.