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The government began evacuating about 15,000 residents of northern towns struck frequently by rocket attacks.
Civil defence authorities in Mariana said they were evacuating about 600 people to higher ground from the village of Bento Rodrigues, about 7km (just over 4 miles) beneath the dam that burst, which was flooded as a result of the accident.
In Bergen County, the police began evacuating about 3,000 people from their homes around 2 a.m.
The United Nations has begun evacuating about 200 civilian employees after attacks on its headquarters, The Associated Press reported, citing United Nations employees who did not provide their names.
Late in the day of April 29, the United States put an end to decades of military involvement in Vietnam by evacuating about 1,000 Americans and more than 5,000 South Vietnamese from Saigon.
The suspension could be catastrophic for patients, said Dr. Barth A. Green, the co-founder of Project Medishare for Haiti, a nonprofit group affiliated with the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine that had been evacuating about two dozen patients a day.
The seventh and eighth floors of Macy's flagship store in Herald Square were evacuated about 4 30 p.m. yesterday after a clothing rack caught fire in the children's department on the seventh floor, a store spokeswoman, Elina Kazan, said.
Rescue workers evacuated about 120 people from buildings in Sunset Park last night after burning electrical cables caused carbon monoxide levels to shoot up in their homes, the authorities said.
In Nicaragua, officials evacuated about 5,000 people, while 3,000 troops were mobilized to assist in the aftermath of the storm.
Homes have been evacuated and about 120 properties in Cornwall have been affected as flooding wreaked havoc across the South West.
Most of the city's 25,000 population has been evacuated but about 5,000 civilians are still believed to be in the town.
