Rains, mudslides kill 29 in southern Brazil’s ‘worst disaster’
- 03-May-2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country’s south where floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed 29 people, with the toll expected to rise. Authorities in Rio Grande do Sul have declared a state of emergency as rescuers continue to search for dozens of people reported missing among the […]
Death toll in Brazil’s Petropolis reaches 104 after rains trigger mudslides
- 18-Feb-2022
PETROPOLIS, Brazil: The death toll from mudslides in Brazil’s colonial-era city of Petropolis rose to 104 on Thursday and was expected to increase further as the region reels from the heaviest rains in almost a century this week. As the rescue effort continued, the local morgue was forced to use a refrigerated truck as a […]
16 dead in Japan as heavy rain triggers floods, mudslides
- 05-Jul-2020
At least 16 people are dead after torrential rain in Japan triggered massive floods and mudslides.
More than 100 dead in Philippine mudslides, flooding: officials
- 24-Dec-2017
MANILA: A tropical storm in the southern Philippines triggered mudslides and flash floods that killed more than 100 people, while dozens are missing, police and disaster officials said on Saturday. The casualties, most of them caused late on Friday, were all on the main southern island of Mindanao, they said, adding three provinces were hardest […]
Nearly 90 dead in Philippine mudslides, flooding as storm hits: officials
- 23-Dec-2017
MANILA: A tropical storm in the Philippines triggered mudslides and flooding that killed nearly 90 people, while dozens are missing, police and disaster officials said on Saturday. The casualties, most of them inflicted late on Friday, were all on the main southern island of Mindanao, they said. “We’re are still trying to confirm reports of […]
Hurricane Otto swirls toward Central America, kills three
- 23-Nov-2016
PANAMA CITY: Hurricane Otto was forecast to strengthen in the Caribbean as it churned toward Central America Tuesday, causing three deaths in Panama and prompting coastal evacuations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Otto became the seventh hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic season. The hurricane, which is packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) […]
Hurricane Matthew pummels Haiti and Cuba, evacuations ordered in US
- 05-Oct-2016
HAITI: Hurricane Matthew pummeled Haiti and moved on to Cuba after killing seven people, unleashing floods and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee the Caribbean’s worst storm in nearly a decade. Far to the north, the first evacuations were ordered in the United States as coastal dwellers prepared to flee the approaching monster storm, expected […]
Drought-stricken California doused with storms
- 03-Dec-2014
LOS ANGELES: Torrential rain deluged swaths of drought-hit California on Tuesday, bringing floods and traffic accidents across the state and prompting evacuations amid fears of destructive mudslides.