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by Saidu Bah Agence France Presse Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP) — At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless on Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city’s morgues. An AFP journalist saw several homes submerged in Regent village, a hilltop community, and corpses floating in the water in the Lumley West area of the city, as the […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Lightning killed at least 11 people in eastern India as large swathes of the country reel under the worst floods in years that have left hundreds dead and millions displaced, officials said Monday. The victims were working in fields in Odisha state when lightning bolts struck them, the state’s top disaster management official said. Fifteen people were injured on top of the 11 dead. “The death toll is likely to rise as […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from severe monsoon flooding across India has risen to at least 76, officials said Monday, with eight people killed in the past day in the worst-hit states. Heavy rain in Gujarat has claimed 11 lives since Saturday as the monsoon intensified across the western state. “Seven of these died in the last 24 hours and at least four others are still missing,” Pankaj Kumar, a Gujarat government official, told AFP. Arunachal Pradesh […]
SAO, PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Floods and landslides in northeastern Brazil have killed six people and driven 50,000 people from their homes, authorities said Tuesday. Heavy rain swelled rivers, causing mud slides, felling trees and harming water supplies, they said. The number forced to flee in Pernambuco and Alagoas states rose from an earlier estimate of 30,000, the regional governments said. Both states declared emergencies after the flooding, which left two dead in Pernambuco and […]
by Amal Jayasinghe Agence France Presse COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — India joined Sri Lanka’s relief operation Saturday as 230,000 people were driven from their homes after an intense monsoon deluge killed at least 103 people. Rainfall on Friday triggered the worst flooding and landslides in 14 years in the southern and western parts of the island, authorities said. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said 103 people were confirmed killed while another 113 were […]
by Julien Besset / Catherine Legault Agence France Presse PIERREFONDS, Canada (AFP) — Canada mobilized its army to help thousands of flood victims try to hold back waters and save their homes Monday after the worst flood in half a century struck, but authorities were optimistic that rising water levels would soon crest. Several rivers and lakes have overflowed their banks in Quebec province, between Gatineau in the Canadian capital region and Montreal 200 kilometers (125 miles) […]
Deadly weekend storms have left at least 14 dead in the midwestern and southern United States, according to officials, as eastern regions faced potential damaging winds and isolated tornadoes into Monday. Missouri Governor Eric Greitens declared a state of emergency as early as Sunday (April 30) due to flooding that he described as “historic” for some parts of the state. Greitens said thousands of National Guard troops might be called upon to assist in […]
https://youtu.be/nG_xDqWttPg Floods hit historic highs in the South of Queensland with houses submerged and people stranded in the wake of Cyclone Debbie which battered Australia’s northeast this week. (video courtesy AFPTV)
NORTH QUEENSLAND (Reuters) –Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull praised the resilience of residents in Queensland state as he surveyed the damage caused by Cyclone Debbie in Bowen on Thursday (March 30). Cyclone Debbie struck as a category four storm on Tuesday (March 28), smashing tourist resorts, ripping off roofs, bringing down power lines, flattening canefields and flooding coastal regions. Tens of thousands more people were still without power on Thursday in north Queensland, where officials […]
HANOI, Vietnam | AFP | — Severe flooding in central Vietnam has killed at least 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said Monday, as the country braced for further destruction with a typhoon barrelling closer. Images from flood-hit provinces showed houses almost completely submerged and people paddling down waterlogged streets following heavy rain that started last week. Four people are still missing after the deluge, which destroyed or damaged more than 240,000 […]
HANOI, Vietnam | AFP |– At least 11 people have died and several more are missing in heavy flooding in central Vietnam, state media said Saturday, with tens of thousands of homes completely submerged by water. The communist government has ordered local authorities to mobilise the army and police to rescue trapped residents following heavy downpours, state-run Vietnam Television reported. The channel said at least 11 had died in the flooding with some 27,000 […]
