SUVA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Fiji's flood death toll rose to seven on Friday after the discovery of two more bodies.
Police spokeswoman Ana Naisoro said the police found a middle aged man's body floating in the Waimanu River near Nausori.
At Tunalia Bridge in the western tourist town of Nadi, the body of 61-years-old villager Jolame Vou Sayabo was also found, who was believed to be drowned after he got stuck in a culvert whilst swimming with family members.
Naisoro said the two bodies are now at local hospitals for a post mortem examination.
Earlier this week, a three-year-old boy of Komave village in Sigatoka died while playing near a creek, and the body of a 31- year-old man was also found at Johnson Road in Lautoka.
On Sunday the body of a man was retrieved from the Nadi River, while a 20-year-old male's body and an unidentified man's body were retrieved on Friday in different areas in the country's west.
Meanwhile, three boys are still believed to be missing, who were on a fishing boat last Tuesday but failed to return as expected on Friday.
According to Nadi's Special Administrator Aisea Tuidraki, damages to businesses in the tourist town are estimated to cost around 200 million Fiji dollars (about 115 million U.S. dollars) .
Meanwhile, it is a bleak Easter weekend for about 13,300 flood- affected people still at the 200 evacuation centres in Fiji's Western and Central divisions.
Friday, 06 April 2012
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