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Thursday, May 11, 1972

At first light this morning, Public Works Department workers were

out in force to clear away mud and rocks blocking roads while firemen had a

busy time answering calls for help from people stranded in the rainstorm.

Teams of Resettlement Department staff were sent out to squatter and

licenced areas to check on the situation.

Damage was reported not serious.

Resettlement and Social Welfare Departments have registered hundreds

of flood victims and have given them relief articles and if necessary,

temporary shelter.

Over 1,000 flood victims in the Kowloon Walled City were registered

by the Social Welfare Department and given relief,

At Sai Tau Village, where serious flooding occurred this morning,

38 people were led to safety by firemen

At the height of the rainstorn early this morning, a fourth-alarm

fire broke out at Hill Road, Western District, adding to the work of the

firemen

Late this afternoon, six bodies that of four adults and two children

had been found on the second floor of the building. They were reloved to

the public mortuary.

Six people are still unaccounted for.

Train services were disrupted early this morning when water and mud

blocked the second of the main line south of the Beacon Hill Tunnel.

Shuttle services were operated between Lowu and Shatin for several

hours before normal services were resumed,

A total of 164.6 m.m. of rain was recorded by the Royal Observatory

between midnight last night and midday today. Yesterday, 116.5 m.m. of

rain fell.

Release Time: 8.00 p.m.