The FINANCIAL — Eight people were killed in Venezuela in downpours caused by the tropical storm Matthew, which later weakened to tropical depression, Venezuelan media reported on September 26, according to RIA Novosti.
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El Universal reported citing Venezuelan Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami as saying that seven people were killed in a landslide in Antimano, a southwestern district of the capital Caracas. The minister gave no further details.
A 70-year-old man drowned in the town of Paria, in the northern state of Sucre, after being swept away by a swollen river.
More rains are expected on September 26.
