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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP)
— One of Mexico’s largest rivers
rose to the top of a waist-high wall
of sandbags yesterday, threatening
to inundate the heart of this city of
475,000 people.
More water was pouring
through a dam upstream, further
endangering the 22-mile-long tem
porary dike. A national emergency
official said on condition of
anonymity that all of Villahermosa,
a city 410 miles east of Mexico City,
may have to be evacuated.
Soldiers and workers from the
National Water Commission were
doubling and in some places
tripling the height of the 4-foot wall
of sandbags holding back the bloat
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through Villahermosa’s commer
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The river has risen 6 feet in the
last three days since authorities
opened the floodgates of Las Peni-
tas dam upstream, releasing four
times the amount of water normal
ly discharged. The dam was beyond
capacity and in danger of breaking.
“If this river goes over, it could
sweep away half the businesses in
the city” Noe Ortiz Gonzalez, gen
eral director of the local Chamber
of Commerce, said.
Silt and trash slowed the flow of
water out of the floodgates, hut of
ficials, fearful the dam could burst,
cleaned the ducts early yesterday,
sending a faster stream of water
down toward Villahermosa. It was
unclear how much that would raise
the river’s level downstream.
Steady rains over the past month
have caused flooding across the re
gion, leaving more than 227,000
people homeless in Tabasco state
alone. Local and state officials
across southeastern Mexico have
reported at least 404 deaths. Many
bodies have not been recovered, so
the toll could be much higher.
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