A total of 4,000 people were evacuated from their homes.

More than 4,000 people have had to be evacuated from their homes or factories.

Members of his staff had been evacuated from their homes.

About 800 of the city's nearly 30,000 people were evacuated from their homes on Friday.

The first order of business was to evacuate the people from the area's homes.

Thousands more were evacuated from their homes in the region.

About 5,000 people in the country evacuated from their homes.

Some 8,000 people were evacuated from their homes for 36 hours.

They were among more than 100 people, about half of them children, evacuated from their homes just before the south wall fell.

This led to 700 local residents being evacuated from their homes.