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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Ten people have been killed in flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an official said Wednesday, with a search ongoing for three others still missing in the disasters on Java island. Torrential downpours triggered flash flooding in Garut in West Java early Wednesday, which quickly rose to around 2 metres (6.5 feet), national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a statement. He said preliminary data from the local disaster […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AFP) — Floods and landslides caused by a tropical depression have damaged or affected some 70 homes and schools and trapped around 200 people in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco, authorities said Sunday. Torrential rains which began Saturday morning caused 33 rock and landslides on interstate highways and the Ayutla-Cruz Grande federal highway, Guerrero state authorities said. The downpour also caused a road to collapse in central Acapulco, sending two cars falling […]
BONTOC, Mountain Province — Dahil sa walang tigil na pag-ulan, nagkaroon na naman ng landslide sa bahagi ng Alab hanggang Gonogon section sa Bontoc, Mountain Province. Sa ngayon, sarado ang nasabing section ng Bontoc at asahang matatagalan ang pagbu-bukas dahil sa laki ng slide. Inaabangan pa ang heavy equipment mula sa Department of Public Works and Highways para isagawa ang clearing operation. Wala namang nai-ulat na nasaktan sa insidente.
OLONGAPO City (Eagle News) — Binabantayan ngayon ang kahabaan ng Kalaklan Road, Olongapo City dahil sa nangyaring landslide sa nasabing lugar, bunsod ng walang tigil na pagbuhos ng ubos. Kasabay ng malakas na pagbuhos ng ulan, ilang mga maliliit na pag guho ng lupa ang napansin ng mga residente sa nasabing barangay. At kaninang umaga ay bumagsak na ang malaking tipak ng lupa sa Olongapo City Cemetary. Mabilis namang rumisponde ang mga otoridad at Disaster Risk […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — At least 35 have been killed in a landslide in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, state media reported Thursday. The landslide caused by heavy rain hit a village in the Kunlun Mountains, burying houses and their occupants in the early hours of Wednesday. By Thursday night 35 bodied had been pulled from the debris, according to the official Xinhua news agency. A rescue operation was underway, but efforts were being hindered by […]
DEHRADUN, India (AFP) — Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in a mountainous part of north India killed at least eight people on Friday and 30 more are missing, a disaster control official said. Piyush Rautela said the toll from the disaster in the scenic Himalayan state of Uttarakhand could rise, with many believed buried in the mud and debris that barreled down slopes into homes. “So far eight bodies have been recovered and […]
TOKYO, United States (AFP) — The death toll from landslides and floods in an earthquake-battered region of southern Japan has risen to six, an official said Wednesday, with all missing now accounted for. A man in his 80s and a 53-year-old woman were confirmed dead after being found Tuesday by rescuers where landslides hit in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto. “We found the last person who had been missing yesterday… the woman was confirmed dead,” […]
COLOMBO , Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to flee their flooded capital as fresh downpours elsewhere hampered relief efforts. The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded the island since last weekend, sparking huge landslides that have buried victims in up to 50 feet (15 meters) of mud. Officials have urged those living in affected areas to leave immediately, with more than 60 […]
SIBOLANGIT , Indonesia (AFP) — Fifteen students holidaying at a popular tourist spot in western Indonesia have been killed in a landslide, an official said Monday, with fears the death toll could rise. Heavy rain and flash flooding triggered a major landslide Sunday at a famous “two-coloured” waterfall at Sibolangit in the north of Sumatra island, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. Searchers had so far unearthed 15 bodies, Sutopo said late Monday. Two […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to 31 on Monday with seven people still missing, authorities said. Heavy rain at the weekend buried a temporary shed used by workers at a hydropower station construction site in Fujian province, in the southeast, under 100,000 cubic metres of mud and rock, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Major rescue efforts were continuing, […]
GUATEMALA CITY,Guatemala (AFP) — A collapsing pile of refuse in a landfill in Guatemala’s capital on Wednesday killed four people picking through the trash and injured 15 others, emergency officials said. Eight of the people hurt were treated at the scene, the city’s main dumping ground for garbage, while the remainder were taken to hospital, a spokesman for Guatemala’s national disaster reduction agency, David de Leon, told AFP. The municipality said in a statement that […]
The Guatemalan government declared a three-day mourning after tragedy struck said country when a landslide killed 57 people. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded and Edited by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/AVCA2mxrCS0
