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52 dead in Japan floods as more troops join rescue

by Charly TRIBALLEAU TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan will deploy more troops to search for survivors of devastating floods and landslides that have killed at least 52 people in the southwest of the country, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Tuesday. Even as rescue operations continued, with 80,000 personnel already involved and more expected to join, authorities warned that more torrential rain was expected. Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued its second-highest emergency warning for heavy rain and […]

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50 dead in Japan floods as rescuers ‘race against time’

by Charly TRIBALLEAU YATSUSHIRO, Japan (AFP) — Emergency services in western Japan were “racing against time” on Tuesday to rescue people stranded by devastating floods and landslides that have killed at least 50 people, with more torrential rain forecast. Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its second-highest emergency warning for heavy rain and landslides over vast swathes of the country’s southwest and said “risks are rising” nationwide. At least 50 deaths have been confirmed in the […]

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Rain hampers rescue efforts after deadly Japan floods

by Charly TRIBALLEAU KUMAMOTO, Japan (AFP) — Torrential rain hampered the efforts of tens of thousands of rescue workers in southwestern Japan Monday as they hunted for survivors from deadly floods and landslides, with more downpours forecast. Around 50 people were feared dead after heavy rain lashed areas of western Japan from early Saturday, causing rivers to burst their banks and flood low-lying regions. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned the weather front was heading across […]

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Desperate searches as dozens feared dead in Japan floods

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Rescue workers in Japan on Monday combed through the wreckage of houses shattered by deadly floods and landslides in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll rose and more torrential rain loomed. At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday, causing rivers to break banks and flooding low-lying regions. “Rescue workers are tirelessly continuing the search […]

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12 killed as rainstorms batter southern China

BEIJING, China (AFP) — Torrential weekend rains killed at least 12 people in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, state media reported Monday, as rising waters sparked mass evacuations during the annual flood season. The toll from the heavy rainstorm in Mianning county included two people who died when several vehicles plunged into a river after flooding damaged a highway. Ten others were missing and more than 7,000 had been evacuated from their homes, the official Xinhua […]

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Flash flooding kills three in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AFP) — Torrential rains turned the streets of Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan into rivers on Thursday, flooding homes, flipping cars, and killing three people. The city’s firefighters said that two people died in the devastation, but a journalist said he saw the body of a third victim. “In half an hour, the water rose a meter and a half (five feet). We had to take refuge on the roof of our […]

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Ukraine flooding leaves three dead, hundreds homeless

KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Three people have died and hundreds more have fled their homes in western Ukraine following the worst flooding in a decade, authorities said Wednesday. Floods caused by heavy rains that began this week hit 200 villages, damaging 5,000 homes and forcing the evacuation of 800 people, the interior ministry said. The worst-hit region is Ivano-Frankivsk on the Romanian border. Around 70 percent of monthly rainfall in some areas regions fell over […]

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Dozens killed as south China hit by floods and rainstorms

BEIJING, China (AFP) — Floods and mudslides in south China have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead or missing, state media reported Thursday. The bad weather has wreaked havoc on popular tourist areas that had already been battered by months of travel restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak. Torrential downpours unleashed floods and mudslides that caused nearly 230,000 people to be relocated and destroyed more than 1,300 houses, official state news agency […]

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Deadly Tropical Storm Amanda hits El Salvador, Guatemala

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, killed 10 people as it lashed El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday amid flooding and power outages. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency for 15 days to cope with the effects of the storm, which lost strength later in the day as it moved into Guatemala. The fatalities were all recorded in El […]

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Three days of rain thwart Florida reopening, cause severe flooding

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — South Florida residents were unable to enjoy the reopening of restaurants and beaches after two months of coronavirus lockdown, when three straight days of rain Tuesday caused severe flooding in Miami and other coastal cities. Floridians have received warnings for severe storms, tornadoes and flash floods since Sunday, as streets turned into rivers and electricity flickered. Images of cars flooded up to their windows have circulated on social media, as […]

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‘Fourteen dead’ in Yemen’s flood-hit Aden

ADEN, Yemen (AFP) — Fourteen people, including at least five children, have been killed and dozens injured in flash floods in Yemen’s second city Aden, authorities said Wednesday, amid submerged streets and destroyed homes. The deaths take the national toll to at least 21 after the United Nations said that seven other people were killed by flooding in the north, where the country’s long conflict between the government and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels continues. Deputy […]

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Dozens killed in eastern DR Congo floods

BUKAVU, DR Congo (AFP) — Forty-six people have died in heavy flooding that struck the town of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, destroying thousands of homes, local officials said on Tuesday, warning the tally could be much higher. “The updated toll is 30 dead, but it’s still very provisional as there are still people trapped in the rubble” of their homes, deputy mayor Kapenda Kyky Kifara told AFP. “It will take weeks […]

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