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LOKOJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria has declared a national disaster after severe flooding left about 100 people dead across 10 states, the country’s main relief agency said on Tuesday. Heavy seasonal rains have caused the Niger and Benue rivers to burst their banks, inundating communities, farms and trapping tens of thousands of people in their homes. Sani Datti, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told AFP: “We have declared a national disaster in […]
(Eagle News) — The European Union expressed readiness to provide the Philippines with assistance amid the onslaught of Typhoon “Ompong” that left at least 50 dead. “The EU Delegation expresses its sincerest sympathies to the victims and to those severely affected by typhoon Ompong,” the EU delegation in Manila said in a statement. “Ompong” left 59 people dead, the Philippine National Police said. Over 500,000 were affected by the typhoon, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AFP) — Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with another 75 missing, many of them children, the Red Cross said Thursday. Thousands of people have been left homeless after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, toppling more than 800 buildings including houses, clinics and schools in North and South Hwanghae provinces, leaving Red Cross volunteers scrambling to find survivors. “Thousands have lost their homes and are in […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) — “Rat fever” and other diseases have killed 14 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. The separate death toll from the monsoon floods that forced more than a million people from their homes in Kerala last month has meanwhile risen to 486, the government said. “We had anticipated leptospirosis (rat fever) due to contaminated water and are taking all […]
BAGO, Myanmar (AFP) — Floods from a dam breach in Central Myanmar has left four people dead and three missing, a ministry official confirmed Friday, the first casualties reported two days after a portion of the levee collapsed from heavy monsoon rains. The deceased were three men and one woman, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, a director at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. “According to the information we got as of this […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Six people have been killed by floodwaters in Taiwan, officials said Saturday, after days of heavy rain forced thousands to evacuate their homes. A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since Thursday, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) of rainfall. Six have died in the storm so far, according to government figures, including three who were killed by a falling […]
ROME, Italy (AFP)–Eleven hikers, up from eight, are now reported to have died in flash floods in Italy’s southern Calabria region, with five people still missing, rescue services said Tuesday. Several hiking groups were caught Monday afternoon by the flooding in the Raganello river gorge in southern Cozenza province, with local authorities saying that 23 people had been rescued. They said the incident involved two groups of 18 hikers each, with powerful floodlights brought up […]
by Bhuvan BAGGA Agence France Presse CHENGANNUR, India (AFP) — More than one million people have swarmed relief camps in India’s Kerala state to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed about 420 people, officials said Tuesday as a huge international aid offers poured in. People are flocking to camps as the scale of the desolation is revealed by receding waters and the military rescues more people each day. The state government said 1,028,000 people […]
ROME, Italy (AFP)–Eight hikers died when a mountain river suddenly flooded in Italy’s southern Calabria region, with five people still missing, local emergency services said on Monday. “We have eight dead but we can’t rule out the toll increasing,” the local civil protection unit told AFP. A statement Monday evening from the prefecture of Cosenza, capital of the province where the flooding hit, said 23 people were saved and five were still missing, as well […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) – Receding floodwaters left Indian troops and rescuers the grim task Monday of hunting for bodies left by the worst monsoon in a century in Kerala state as the death toll rose above 400. With nearly three quarters of a million people packed into relief camps in the southern state, known for its tourist beaches and hill resorts, authorities also fear outbreaks of disease. After a week of fierce downpours, rainfall eased […]
by Bhuvan BAGGA in Thrissur, and Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi Agence France Presse THRISSUR, India (AFP) — Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed at least 370 people and drove more than 700,000 from their homes. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state’s worst floods for a century. Rescuers fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas […]
by Bhuvan Bagga Agence France Presse THRISSUR, India (AFP) — Rescuers waded into submerged villages in southern India on Sunday in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state’s worst floods in a century, and emergency responders fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas almost entirely underwater. In Thrissur, […]
