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Tornado devastates 7 villages in Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh

Tornado ripped into seven villages of Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat district yesterday, damaging over 200 dwelling houses.   Our Jamalpur correspondent reported that at least 100 houses were damaged as a tornado lashed Lauchapra village under Kamalpur union of Bakshiganj upazila…

Emergency evacuation alert sparks panic as Tropical Storm Fung-Wong heads for Taiwan

Taiwan evacuated almost 1,000 people from endangered areas as Typhoon Fung-Wong, which left at least 10 dead in the Philippines and caused Manila’s worst flooding in two years, approached packing wind gusts as strong as 120kph.   Fung-Wong, Phoenix in…

Extreme hailstorm unleashes complete havoc in Florence, Italy

The Italian city of Florence has been hit by a violent hail storm which destroyed terrace bars in a central square and injured five people when a primary school collapsed in an outlying village.   It also flooded the market…

Apocalyptic floods affect 2.3 million in Pakistan

Sher Muhammad, 85, looked on with a sense of bewilderment: “I have not seen such a flood, not since around the time of partition [1947].” As the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams…

Emergency disaster declared due to severe flooding and landslides in parts of the Philippines

Following the heavy downpour last Wednesday night until yesterday, floods and landslides were reported in Cebu City and different areas of the province.   PDRRMO reported rock falls along the Transcentral Highway in the boundary between Balamban town and Cebu…

Landslide strikes a campsite and buries a caravan near Břeclav, Czech Republic

Heavy rain triggered a landslide in the region of Břeclav in southern Moravia on Sunday. The incident happened at a campsite by the river, leaving one caravan buried under the debris. One woman was reportedly injured and had to be…

Landslide devours hamlet in Udhampur; 31 still missing

Ganesh Singh walked 30 km to reach his village only to find it missing, as a mountain had crumbled after heavy rain devouring the entire hamlet and with it 41 people, including his family of six.    Recalling the sequence…

Apocalyptic Floods Kill Over 440 in Pakistan, India

Raging monsoon floods sweeping across India and Pakistan have killed more than 440 people, authorities said Tuesday, warning hundreds of thousands more to be prepared to flee their homes as helicopters and boats raced to save marooned victims.   Authorities…