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

22.  The surging waters washed out the only access bridge to the normally dry gulch in Culebra, where the one-story concrete block house was built.

23.  The workers, refusing to be identified, said surging water broke through a gate, scattering heavy machinery in all directions.

24.  With most crops in southern and central Mozambique destroyed by the surging waters that struck last month, officials focused on the next planting in late April.

25.  Embankments have been washed away or damaged by surging waters, he said.

26.  Two other people drowned in their car which fell from a bridge into the surging waters of a river near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.