In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
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Question: 洪水は、州北部のジョス市近辺での大量の降水量の結果ダムの許容貯水量を超えたため発生した。

Answer: The flooding occurred as the result of a large amount of rainfall close to Jos, a city in the north of the state, causing overflow of a dam.


Question: 赤十字の国際人道運動の関係者は「私たちは早い段階から彼らと接触し、瓦礫から助け出しながら一晩中話し続けた」と語った。

Answer: An official from the international humanitarian movement the Red Cross said "[w]e made contact with them early on and kept talking with them through the night as we pulled away at the debris."


Question: 以前女性が占めていた議席の2.5倍となった。

Answer:
Two and a half times the number of seats that had been reserved for women.