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    Sri Lanka monsoon floods kill 14, schools shut

    02 Jun 2024

    Some drowned, including three members of the same family swept away near the capital Colombo on Sunday. Others were buried alive in mudslides, including an 11-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

    Floods, landslides triggered by heavy rains in India's northeast kill 16

    02 Jul 2024

    The Indian army and air force have been assisting with rescue efforts in Assam, one of the worst-hit states, where a military helicopter flew early on Tuesday morning 13 fishermen to safety after being stranded for four days on a small island on the Brahmaputra.

    Heavy rain

    30 Aug 2024

    It’s so sad that the spell of ongoing heavy rain has claimed a number of precious human lives in both the countries of India and Pakistan (“Thousands evacuated as rain lashes parts of India and Pakistan,” Aug.29, Gulf Today website). According to the report, heavy rains battered parts

    Playing catchup amid floods in Bangladesh

    24 Jul 2024

    Junayed Ahmed was looking forward to celebrating Eid-al-Adha with his parents in the city of Sylhet in eastern Bangladesh. But then rain started pelting down, the river Surma began to rise and his house was flooded. “With knee-deep water in our single-storey house and its yard, we just had to postpone

    At least 293 killed in monsoon rain-related accidents in Pakistan

    04 Sep 2024

    Heavy rains have partially or fully damaged 19,572 houses, 39 bridges and several schools across the country, said the agency, adding that nearly 1,077 livestock have also perished from July 1 to August 31, Xinhua news agency reported.

    14 dead in flash floods triggered by heavy monsoons in northwest Pakistan

    30 Jul 2024

    The rains in Kohat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooded the basement of a house where the family slept, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for emergency services said.

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