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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/panama-canal-closed-after-flooding.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Fresh flooding has forced the Panama Canal to close for the first time in 21 years" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-panama-canal-closed-after-flooding.jpg" alt="Fresh flooding has forced the Panama Canal to close for the first time in 21 years"/></a></p>
<p>Fresh flooding has forced the Panama Canal to close for the first time in 21 years and heavy rains were being blamed for at least two deaths.</p>
<p>More than 1,000 people were also evacuated because of what authorities called &#8220;historic flooding&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re taking measures to normalise transit operations in the coming hours,&#8221; Manuel Benitez, the executive vice president of canal operations, said.</p>
<p>The last time the canal closed was on December 20 1989, when US troops invaded the country to topple president Manuel Noriega.</p>
<p>The country&#8217;s Civil Protection System declared that eastern Panama was on high alert and issued evacuation orders for about 1,500 people in dozens of flooded neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>Authorities recovered the bodies of two girls who were on a boat that capsized in the town of Chepo in the south-east part of the country.</p>
<p>About 5% of the world&#8217;s naval commerce moves through the canal, and the US is its main user.</p>
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