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Gaza sewage flood

Umm Naser (Gaza Strip): An earth embankment around a cesspool suddenly collapsed on Tuesday, spewing a river of sewage and mud that killed four persons and forced residents to flee from this village in the northern Gaza Strip, officials said. A local official blamed shoddy infrastructure in Umm Naser, a town of 3,000, for the disaster. Many of the village's houses were submerged or seriously damaged. Fadl Kawash, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, said the level of sewage in the pool had increased over the past few days, creeping up the earth embankments around the pool until one collapsed, ``causing the sewage to pour toward the village.'' A villager described the scene as ``our tsunami.''

AP

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