The Kenyan government has postponed the reopening of schools by a week due to the ongoing floods that have killed more than 80 people so far.
Recent floods in the Faryab province of Afghanistan have resulted in a significant loss of life, with at least 80 reported deaths, 5 injuries, and 5 individuals missing, according to local sources. The floods, which occurred last Friday, have devastated several districts, including Bulcharagh, Pashtunkot, Khwaja Sabzposh, Qaisar, and Almar, leaving dozens dead and wounded, […]
The entire state of Hawaii is now under a flood watch through Friday evening, with more heavy rainfall and flooding possible across the Islands. Severe weather, including a torrential downpour, caused flooding and landslides on the island of Oahu this week. “Constant rain since 11 o’ clock this morning going steady, and a few hours later we had this raging rapid river behind our house,” Oahu resident Irwin Santos told Hawaii News Now on Monday. Landslides closed roads on Oahu, including an area...
During April 2024, heavy rains in Kenya and Tanzania caused massive
The death toll in Iran's northeastern Khorasan Razavi province has reached 12, as floods sweep through the region, exacerbated by government mismanagement and flawed urban planning.
Heavy rains triggered flash flooding in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing at least 37 people. The downpour also triggered a cold lava flow from an active volcano, sweeping away more than 100 homes.
New rains in waterlogged southern Brazil are expected to be heaviest between Sunday and Monday, authorities have warned, bringing fresh misery to victims of flooding that has killed 136 people so far.
Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed dozens of people in Afghanistan, officials have said. According to the U.N. food agency the western province of Ghor has been the most affected by the floods. (AP production by Fazel Rahman Faizi)
At least 361 injured and 131 missing in southern part of country from what governor called his state’s ‘biggest climate catastrophe’The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city.Photographs of the Porto Alegre airport, one of Brazil’s...
Animal dubbed ‘Caramelo’ was trapped for days, balancing on two strips of slippery asbestos after flooding hit the Porto Alegre areaEmergency workers have rescued a horse that had been trapped for days on a rooftop after severe floods in southern Brazil, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 107 people.The animal, dubbed Caramelo on social media, had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area that is one of the...
Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, Taliban officials said Saturday, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports. Afghanistan has been witnessing unusually heavy seasonal rains. In the hard-hit western province of Ghor, 50 people were reported dead, said Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman for the provincial […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, Taliban officials said Saturday, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports. Afghanistan has been witnessing unusually heavy seasonal rains. In the hard-hit western province of Ghor, 50 people were reported dead, said Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman []