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Rainfall rates could be half an inch or more per hour, leading the weather service to put burn areas on flood watch from Monday night to Tuesday afternoon, he said.

The two women move around the room, burning herbs and shaking shamanic rattles while singing and chanting in a purification ritual known as "smudging".

Twenty years later, simmering racial tensions and police mistrust escalated into the Handsworth riots, with shops looted, cars burned and 35 people injured or hospitalised over two days of mayhem.

There is some risk of flash flooding and debris flows in burn scar areas.

Video footage taken on Friday showed fires still burning, charred vehicles, and smoke rising from the razed building.