Nature and Travel
| Iceland Monitor
| Tue 6 Oct 2015
| 12.23 GMT
PM to visit glacier flood zone
The flood was the biggest on record and caused widespread damage. Photo: Kjartan
Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, is today visiting the area hit by the extensive glacier flood of the Skaftá river in South Iceland last week.
He will be inspecting the damage caused and meeting representatives of the municipal and civil protection authorities.
A meeting for local people will be held tomorrow with representatives of Civil Protection in Iceland, the Icelandic Met Office, the Emergency Relief Fund, the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, and the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson PM. Photo: Ómar Óskarsson
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