New Zealand military called in as hundreds flee floods ...United Arab Emirates

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Wellington: New Zealand's military was deployed to evacuate hundreds of residents from flood-hit areas of the South Island Monday as heavy rains washed away bridges and cut roads. Rivers burst their banks as a weather system dumped 400 mm (15.5 inches) of rain in two days, an amount meteorologists said exceeded the entire rainfall so far this year in some areas. Authorities issued a rare "red" weather warning and declared a state of emergency in the Canterbury region, one of the South Pacific nation's farming hubs. This handout photo taken on May 30, 2021 and received on May 31 from the New Zealand Defence Force shows an army soldier wading through floodwaters helping evacuate residents a

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