Asian Disaster Reduction Center（ADRC）

Details of Disaster Information

Argentina : Flood : 2003/05/01
GLIDE: FL-2003-000196-ARG

Duration	2003/05/01
Country or District	Argentina
Name	Flood
Outline	Argentina floods displace 100,000 and seven dead, three missing after days of rain.

Headline(Source, Date)
Personal Injury	Material Damage	Others
OCHA Situation Report No.5 2003/05/12
Dead: 23 people Missing: 600 people Affected: 140,000 people	Damaged: 28,000 houses (some 4,000 unrecoverable)

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Report/Articles

OCHA Situation Report No.5 2003/05/12
23 dead, 600 people reported missing
Reuters Alertnet 2003/05/10
Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for a week after record floods hit Argentina's farming heartland, the death toll could surge from 22.
BBC news 2003/05/07
More than 1,700 people are missing.
OCHA Situation Report No.3 2003/05/06
22 persons have been confirmed dead, and 900 persons have officially been reported missing.
BBC news 2003/05/04
Argentina floods kill 18
OCHA Situation Report No.2 2003/05/03
9 dead confirmed and 100,000 persons officially reported as evacuated.
CNN News 2003/05/02
Atleast 29,000 people were in 115 official shelters, but they estimated another 90,000 residents had been displaced and were staying with relatives.