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Dubai roads, airport reel from floods after record rains

Terra Daily Thursday, 18 April 2024 ()
Dubai (AFP) April 17, 2024

Dubai's giant highways were clogged by flooding and its major airport was in chaos as the Middle East financial centre remained gridlocked on Wednesday, a day after the heaviest rains on record. Tailbacks snaked along waterlogged, six-lane expressways after up to 259.5 millimetres (10.2 inches) of rain, the most since records began 75 years ago, fell on the desert United Arab Emirates on Tue
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