11.  In the surrounding region, villagers were forced to seek higher ground as surging water inundated farms and villages, authorities said.

12.  On Saturday, the dazed and dirty survivors, stripped of all their possessions by the surging water, recounted their ordeals as they congregated in the camps.

13.  Rescue workers hampered by continuing storms spotted several more bodies floating in the surging waters, Uciuleanu said.

14.  Rescue workers hampered by continuing storms spotted several more bodies floating in the surging waters, he said.

15.  Residents surprised by surging waters.

16.  Several more bodies were spotted floating in the surging waters, he said.

17.  Surging water swept away schools and small factories, and thousands of people were evacuated and housed in schools.

18.  Surging waters swept through shantytowns near the Sudanese capital, killing dozens of people and leaving thousands homeless, Sudanese television reported Monday.

19.  State television showed farmers waist deep in the river locking arms as a human breakwater to protect fragile earthen dikes from the surging waters.

20.  Surging water swept away schools and small factories, and thousands of people were evacuated.