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WORLD NEWS Monday 1 august 2022

Infrastructure damage hampers flood recovery in Kentucky

By Bruce Schreiner and Chloe Adams waited hours
John Raby until daylight before a rela-
(AP) — Damage to critical tive in a kayak arrived and
infrastructure and the ar- moved them to safety, first
rival of more heavy rains taking her dog, Sandy, and
hampered efforts Sunday then the teenager.
to help Kentucky residents “My daughter is safe and
hit by recent massive flood- whole tonight,” her fa-
ing, Gov. Andy Beshear ther, Terry Adams, said in
said. a Facebook post. “We lost
As residents in Appalachia everything today … every-
tried to slowly piece their thing except what matters
lives back together, flash most.”
flood warnings were issued On an overcast morning in
for at least eight eastern downtown Hindman, about
Kentucky counties. The Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, center, answers question 200 miles (322 kilometers)
National Weather Service from residents of Knott County Ky., that have been displaced southeast of Louisville, a
said radar indicated up to by floodwaters at the Knott County Sportsplex in Leburn, Ky., crew cleared debris piled
4 inches (10.2 centimeters) Sunday, July 31, 2022. along storefronts. Nearby,
of rain fell Sunday in some Associated Press a vehicle was perched up-
areas, with more rain pos- ter. He estimated that the areas, having a firm num- side down in Troublesome
sible. guard had rescued close ber of how many people Creek, now back within its
Beshear said the death toll to 20 by boat from hard-to- were living there in the first debris-littered banks.
climbed to 26 on Sunday access areas. place.” The governor also Workers toiled nonstop
from last week’s storms, a At a news conference talked about the selfless- through mud-caked side-
number he expected to in Knott County, Beshear ness he’s seen among Ken- walks and roads.
rise significantly and that it praised the fast arrival of tucky residents suffering “We’re going to be here
could take weeks to find all FEMA trailers but noted the from the floods. unless there’s a deluge,”
the victims. numerous challenges. “Many people that have said Tom Jackson, who is
As many as 37 people were “We have dozens of bridg- lost everything but they’re among the workers.
unaccounted for, accord- es that are out — making it not even getting goods for Jackson was with a crew
ing to a daily briefing from hard to get to people, mak- themselves, they’re getting from Corbin, Kentucky,
the Federal Emergency ing it hard to supply people them for other people in where he’s the city’s recy-
Management Agency. A with water,” he said. “We their neighborhoods, mak- cling director, about a two-
dozen shelters were open have entire water systems ing sure that their neighbors hour drive from Hindman.
for flood victims in Ken- down that we are working are OK,” Beshear said. His crew worked all day
tucky with 388 occupants hard to get up.” Among the stories of surviv- Saturday, and the mud
on Sunday. Beshear said it will remain al that continue to emerge, and debris were so thick
Gen. Daniel Hokanson, difficult, even a week from a 17-year-old girl whose that they managed to
chief of the U.S. National now, to “have a solid num- home in Whitesburg was clear one-eighth of a mile
Guard Bureau, told The As- ber on those accounted flooded Thursday put her of roadway. The water
sociated Press about 400 for. It’s communications dog in a plastic contain- rushing off the hillsides had
people have been rescued issues — it’s also not nec- er and swam 70 yards to so much force that it bent
by National Guard helicop- essarily, in some of these safety on a neighbor’s roof. road signs.q

Italians ask if immigrant’s

slaying could have been

stopped

By Frances D’emilio ter first being struck with
(AP) — Italians debated his own crutch and then
Sunday whether a Nige- pummeled furiously by the
rian street vendor could suspect. Video footage of
have been saved from the attack has circulated
a fatal attack by an en- on Italian news websites
raged Italian man that and social media.
played out in public as A judge on Monday will
bystanders watched. rule if the alleged attack- A woman places a bouquet of flowers where the Nigerian
Mourners left flowers and er, identified by police as street vendor Alika Ogorchukwu has been murdered, in
placards denouncing the Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Civitanova Marche, Italy, Saturday, July 30, 2022.
violence and the indiffer- Ferlazzo, 32, should remain Associated Press
ence of those nearby. jailed during the investi- change. The slain man’s on his back, his attacker
On Saturday, as strollers gation. Police investigator lawyer said he was at- on top of him and striking
promenaded along a bus- Matteo Luconi said the as- tacked after compliment- him.
tling shopping street in Ci- sailant went after the ven- ing the woman’s beauty. Ogorchukwu frequently
vitanova Marche, an Ital- dor following “insistent” re- An autopsy will help deter- peddled packets of tissues
ian town on the Adriatic quests by Ogorchukwu to mine if Ogorchukwu died or cigarette lighters to cus-
Sea, Alika Ogorchukwu, the suspect and his female from the beating or possi- tomers, local shopkeepers
39, was left for dead af- companion for pocket bly was strangled as he lay said.q