Three provinces in Thailand’s 14-province southern region have been hard hit by floods as a seasonal monsoon is creating havoc in the region, especially Narathiwat, Phattalung, and Yala where Thai Army units have been pressed into service to help evacuate communities that are cut off.
About 1,000 houses have been flooded in the southern province of Narathiwat, hard hit by heavy rain for almost a week.
HANOI - UNSEASONAL floods in central Vietnam have killed at least five people and left three others missing and feared dead in recent days, national emergency services and state media reports said on Sunday.
Four men were swept away in floods and one woman drowned when her small fishing boat sank in a swollen river as heavy rains hit Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces, said the National Flood and Storm Control Committee in Hanoi.
More than 5,000 houses were destroyed or damaged, and almost 75,000 hectares of crops were under water, it said in an online report.
Torrential rain caused flash floods across much of the UK over the weekend, inundating hundreds of homes and claiming the life of an elderly motorist whose car was swamped by nearly three feet of water.
At one point, there were more than 300 flood warnings in place, with south-western England accounting for about a third of incidents. The Midlands, South Coast and parts of Wales and Scotland were also affected.
MANILA, Philippines - Flash floods and landslides loom over the eastern section of southern Luzon due to the tail-end of a cold front, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Sunday.
Pagasa said the tail-end of a cold front is affecting Luzon while an inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is affecting Mindanao.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.
Keerthi Ekanayake of the Disaster Management Center said the northern Jaffna peninsula and the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts were inundated and nearly 8,000 houses have been destroyed.
Seven people were confirmed dead and more than 88,000 were displaced in the north alone, Ekanayake said.
The military said four soldiers stationed in Jaffna were missing after being caught in the flooding.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the northern region had already been displaced by fighting between government troops and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels and are living in temporary huts.
An additional 10,000 people have become homeless because of the floods in the rest of Sri Lanka, Ekanayake said.
The government plans to send emergency aid and shelter materials, Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.
Aid agencies were evicted from rebel-held territory in September by the government, which said it could not guarantee their security amid the fighting.
Forecasters are warning of more rain as Brazil reels from devastating floods caused by torrential rains this week.
Meteorologists have predicted at least some chance of rain on Saturday and Sunday.
At least a hundred people have died with more than a dozen still missing.
And tens of thousands of people in 14 cities have been forced to seek shelter in schools, churches and public buildings.
Flash floods following torrential rains across Morocco have claimed the lives of at least 13 people, overwhelmed emergency services and forced factories and businesses to close.
Eleven people were killed in the village of Driouch, 500km north of Rabat, when 20 homes collapsed in what local authorities described as the heaviest rains in the area for more than 20 years.
Local officials confirmed on Friday that a two-year-old child was among the dead.
Forecasters said “exceptionally heavy rain” is expected to fall in the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales. Gale force winds are also set to lash coastal areas.
Byron Chalcraft, a Met Office forecaster, said: “Exceptionally heavy rain is expected, with 50 to 80mm (3in) in places and perhaps in excess of 100mm (4in) locally. The heavy rain could lead to flooding in some areas and cause disruption to outdoor events and transport networks.”
ALGIERS (AFP) - Flooding following rare torrential rains on the edge of the Algerian desert have killed at least 30 people and injured 50, while damaging hundreds of homes, officials said Thursday.
Algeria’s Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said the floods are the worst for a century and warned of higher casualties in Ghardaia, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) south of Algiers in the M’Zab Valley, a UN World Heritage site.
“Based on the overflight that we made, the toll unfortunately could be greater,” Zerhouni told reporters after meeting local authorities in the region, which links the High Plateau area with the Sahara.
HANOI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides have killed 50 people in Vietnam and Thailand, swept away thousands of homes and inundated farmland, official reports said on Sunday.
In Vietnam, the death toll from typhoon Hagupit, which struck the Philippines and China earlier in the week, has jumped to 32 with another five people missing.
Thousands of homes were either washed away or destroyed by heavy rains and landslides in northern Vietnam, the government’s storm and flood prevention committee said.
