ISIOLO, Kenya - Heavy rains in northeastern Kenya have forced more than 3,000 people from their homes and aid workers are having trouble accessing them after a nearby riverbank burst, an official said on Thursday.
"About 3,200 people require aid. They have been put up in a nearby school," Isaac Tonui, senior district officer for the Isiolo area, told Reuters by phone.
He said tourists from several local hotels had been evacuated on Wednesday, a day after heavy rains burst the banks of the nearby the Ewaso Nyiro river in the Malka Daka area.
"The roads are not accessible. We are waiting for an army chopper to get to the families," he said.
The rains come after a severe months-long drought ravaged Kenya, particularly the northeastern region.
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