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He told the AFP news agency he immediately ran home to try to find his wife and sons.

A Yangon resident told AFP that many of her neighbours believed in the prediction.

Esquerre told the AFP news agency it was a shame for the victims that her account had become so prominent, "because it steals their limelight a little".

A member of Hamas's political bureau, Bassem Naim, criticised Abbas's decision to "describe a significant and integral part of his own people using derogatory language", according to AFP news agency.

To clamp down those numbers, the Dominican Republic has deported more than 80,000 people to Haiti in the first three months of this year, according to AFP news agency.