Deadly storm strikes Argentina

October 30, 2012 13:14

News of yet another storm...

At least two people were killed in Argentina when torrential rain drenched the Buenos Aires area, knocking out power, and flooding streets and train tunnels, officials said.

A 65-year-old man drowned when he fell down trying to rescue a television set from his flooded home in the town of Isidro Casanova, just west of Buenos Aires.

A woman was electrocuted at her home in the Lanus neighborhood in the outskirts of the capital, local officials said. Five of the city's seven subway lines as well as the regional train system was forced to stop for several hours during the day due to track flooding.

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