The heaviest rainfall in 90 years in the African state of Burkina Faso has triggered heavy flooding and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the government said Wednesday.
"We have been able to find shelter for about 110,000 people but there are others who have taken refuge with their neighbors," Prime Minister Tertius Zongo told reporters after an emergency cabinet meeting.
WITH the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the UK and [South Asia/India/Bangladesh] to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to the region's economy and its people.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today cancelled its much-hyped public meeting scheduled here in the afternoon because of the fresh bout of landslides that struck the hills.
The party top brass, however, continues to be tight-lipped on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, who was elected MP from Darjeeling with Morcha support, from the BJP.
About 82 families in Bajura district have become homeless due to floods and subsequent landslide.
In Kuldevmandau VDC, 6o families have been displaced and other 22 in Kailashmandau-6 VDC.
The VDC office informed that some seven families of Bane village have been taking shelter in a local school while other 27 families of Kavra village have been taking refuge in a nearby forest.
At least forty-six people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.
Three villages in the hilly Pithoragarh district were swept away in the landslide after a cloudburst on Saturday, local police official M.S. Sathnam said.
A medium-strength typhoon, the most severe this year so far, slowly enveloped Taiwan on Friday, forcing flight cancellations and port closures after killing 11 people in the Philippines.
Typhoon Morakot churned slowly toward Taiwan with winds gusts up to 180 kph (112 mph) on its way to China and after triggering flash floods in the Philippines, disaster officials said.
Nainital: Rescue workers on Sunday searched through mud and rocks for other fatalities even as they pulled out 23 bodies from the debris of a landslide that swamped three villages in Uttarakhand
Dehra Dun: Six more bodies were recovered from the debris on Sunday, taking the death toll in the cloudburst that triggered a massive landslip in three villages of Pithoragarh district to 21.
Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least one dozen people and forced about 400,000 to flee their homes and farms in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said on Monday.
Troops deployed rubber boats, amphibious vehicles and trucks to evacuate thousands of families marooned in low-lying areas of Mindanao, Colonel Jonathan Ponce told reporters.
