Pakistani rescuers dug homes out from under massive boulders on Sunday as they searched for survivors of flash floods that killed at least 344 people, with more than 150 still missing...
Hurricane Erin strengthened rapidly to a Category 3 storm early Saturday as it churned towards the Caribbean, with a warning issued that flash floods and landslides were possible...
Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 321 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Saturday...
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan have killed at least 199 people in the past 24 hours, national and local officials said on Friday...
The Indian army brought in sniffer dogs, drones and heavy earth-moving equipment on Wednesday to search for scores of people missing a day after deadly Himalayan flash floods...
Monsoon floods in a rebel-held Myanmar town on the country鈥檚 mountainous border with China have killed six people, a spokesman for the armed group controlling the area said Wednesday...
A flash flood driving a torrent of mud smashed into a town in India鈥檚 Himalayan region on Tuesday, tearing down a mountain valley before demolishing buildings and killing at least four people...
THOUSANDS of people living in the Muhuri basin in Feni recovering from socio-economic losses of the flash flood earlier in July are now faced with similar uncertainty again as the transboundary river swelled by 11 feet in three hours with no warning on June 20. It rained moderately to heavily on the catchment area spreading between India鈥檚 Tripura and Bangladesh...
Flash floods in eastern China鈥檚 Shandong province killed two people and left 10 missing on Tuesday, state media said...
Thousands of people living along the Muhuri basin in Feni district witnessed something strange waking up on Monday morning when the trans-boundary river swelled by nearly 11 feet in just three hours by 9:00am...
More villages were inundated on Thursday as flash floods and water stagnation gripped vast swathes of the coastal belt, including major coastal towns and cities, with torrential rain continuing over most of Bangladesh for the fourth consecutive day...
Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge linking the two countries, were caused by the release of water from a glacial lake, experts said Wednesday...
YET another flash flood has left thousands stranded in coastal regions, worsening the already fragile disaster-prone areas. Reports show that large swathes of Feni, Cumilla, Shariatpur, Chattogram, Barishal, Khulna and Noakhali grapple with flash floods and widespread inundation. In many areas, residents live without access to safe drinking water. The flood has also...
Scores of people moved to shelters as flash floods and water stagnation gripped vast swathes of the coastal belt, including major coastal towns and cities, with torrential rain continuing over most of Bangladesh for the third consecutive day until Wednesday...
The water level of the River Muhuri in Feni district may reach the danger level within the next 24 hours, raising the risk of temporary flash floods in adjacent low-lying areas, said Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre.
Rescuers in the US state of Texas on Monday searched for bodies swept away by flash floods that killed more than 80 people, including 27 girls and counsellors at a summer camp...
Rescuers searched Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed at least 27 people鈥攚ith more rain on the way.
Flash floods and landslides after torrential rain over the last two weeks killed at least 69 people and injured 110 others in India鈥檚 northern Himalayan regions, officials said Friday.
Flash floods and heavy rain in Pakistan have killed 64 people and injured 117 in a week, a government agency said on Wednesday...
Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 32 people including 16 children since the start of the monsoon season this week, disaster management officials said...
Low-lying areas along the River Teesta in the Rangpur division may encounter flash floods due to heavy to very heavy rainfall likely to occur over vast swathes of land expanding from northern Bangladesh to upstream places across the borders in India, Bhutan and Nepal...
FLOODING from incessant rain caused by the recent depression in the Bay of Bengal has remained somewhat unchanged while the government鈥檚 disaster management and relief efforts are barely visible. Four of the five north-eastern rivers that were flowing above their danger marks further swelled, as the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre reported in its last cycle on June...
Water levels of all major rivers in the Sylhet region have kept rising rapidly due to heavy rainfall for a few days, triggering fear of flash floods...
Nine waves of flash floods hit Bangladesh in the past five months, affecting millions, many of them repeatedly, according to a presentation made by the Flash Flood Warning Centre at a discussion on Wednesday...
A QUARTER to a million people, especially at Nalitabari, Jhenaigati and Sribardipur spanning about 800 square kilometres in Sherpur are left stranded in a flash flooding that a heavy spell of rain in Bangladesh鈥檚 north and its adjacent hills upstream across the border in India caused in 24 hours until night on October 4. The height of the trans-boundary river...
At least three people were killed and thousands evacuated as the flash flood sweeping through parts of northern Bangladesh worsened, prompting authorities to seek help from...
The low-lying areas of Lalmonirhat district in Bangladesh have been inundated as River Teesta keeps swelling due to the onrush of water from the upstream and the torrential rainfall for the last several days, leaving 25,000 people stranded.
THE government has come up with details on the damage that flash flooding of the east, north-east and south-east for a fortnight beginning in the third week of August has caused. The disaster management and relief ministry has estimated the damage from the flooding to the tune of Tk 142.69 billion, warranting that the government needs to...
As many as 82,755 houses were partially and completely damaged in the recent flash flood in Cumilla district alone with official estimates putting the losses of the flood at over Tk 3,500 crore.
AMID the flash flood and imminent landslide risk, reported incidents of rape and rape attempts are an added concern for the national minorities living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. A rape and two cases of rape attempts were filed in the three hill districts in August 22鈥�23. A group of Bengali men on August 22 dragged an elderly woman and her daughter out of...