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Bucharest (AFP) June 23, 2010 Three people, two of them elderly, have been killed in flooding in Romania, authorities said, after heavy rains swamped about 2,000 homes. A 78-year-old woman drowned in the central Alba region Wednesday, the emergency situations inspectorate said, a day after an 84-year-old woman drowned in northwestern Cluj. Another person was found dead in Cluj Wednesday, authorities said, without giving details. Media reports said two sisters aged nine and 16 were struck by lightning on Tuesday, with the younger one suffering serious wounds and the other in a coma. About a hundred towns in 27 of the country's 42 departments have been affected by the floods caused by heavy rains since Monday.
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