Eight people died and five others are missing after a flash flood washed away vehicles at the Utah/Arizona border, the Hildale, Utah, fire department said.

All the victims are mothers and small children, Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Barlow said. The youngest child was about 4 years old.

The flooding ravaged a community that straddles the border from Hildale, Utah, to Colorado City, Arizona.

A young Australian man has been reportedly killed by what was believed to be a lightning strike when he was hiking at a popular trail in the US.

Jonathan Crowden, from Alfredton, west of Melbourne, was hiking alone on Sunday afternoon (local time) at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, according to a park official.

But the trip of a lifetime ended in tragedy for the 21-year-old after his deceased body was found about 1.6 kilometres down the South Kaibab Trail.

A witness alerted the canyon's communication centre to report seeing a man being struck by a suspected lightning.

Three people lost their lives as lightning struck them and a person was left injured at Dupally village in Renjal Mandal, Nizamabad district on Tuesday.

Reports state that the three farm labourers engaged in their farm work were struck by lightning and immediately died. A woman who was injured in the incident was rushed to a nearby hospital but her condition is said to be critical.

With heavy rains pouring down in Telangana state, many districts have experienced the strong gales. The lightning incidents, lately have increased in both Telangana and AP as earlier 20 people were killed in AP on the same day due to lightning.

Escaping the Valley Fire in Anderson Springs / YouTube / mulletFive575102As the catastrophic Valley Fire spread through Lake County, California, one YouTube user recorded his daring escape from his home down apocalyptic roads flanked by blazing pines. During the series of videos, he defied death on his way to safety.

The inferno ripped through 50,000 acres in just 36 hours, destroying as many as 1,000 homes and forcing more than 19,000 residents to flee the area. On Saturday night, with no warning, YouTube user mulletFive, realized he and his wife had to escape. He captured three videos of their harrowing flight to safety out of Anderson Springs.


"We are the last house at the very back of the Springs, down in a gulch. There was no smoke or ash coming our way, and there were no sirens or air support nearby, so we honestly didn't know how close it was," mulletFive wrote in a YouTube comment.

"Once we drove up out of our gulch, we realized how close it was. There were no sirens or air support because there was zero firefighting effort in Anderson Springs," he added.


"[W]e did wait way too long to get out," he wrote. "In retrospect, we should have gone out for a drive to find out what was going on, but we were a little preoccupied with packing."

On Sunday, the inferno was still 0 percent contained, and one person was reported dead due to the Valley Fire.

READ MORE: California burning: One dead, 1,000s evacuated as wildfires scorch 400 homes (PHOTOS)

MulletFive wrote that he thought that most of the houses he passed during his dangerous drive would have been consumed by fire. He and his wife are waiting to receive the all-clear to go back home to inspect the damage, but he expects that to be several more days.

"I am in the Bay Area waiting for the roads to reopen, and as soon as they do I will shoot video driving around the Springs and post it ASAP," he wrote Sunday evening.


As of 8 a.m. local time on Monday, the fire was 5 percent contained and it had burned through 61,000 acres.

"Hundreds of homes and hundreds of other structures destroyed," the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection noted on its website.

A waterspout formed in Charles County, Maryland, and was caught on a surveillance camera.

The camera at Captain John's Crab House, in Newburg, Maryland, was pointed out at the water Saturday when storms moved through the area. A waterspout developed in the marina around 3 p.m.

Skip Yates, the general manager of the restaurant, said the winds knocked over some tables and chairs, but nobody was hurt.

If you were near the waterfront in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday you may have witnessed a dramatic show from Mother Nature.

A waterspout formed over the water of Tampa Bay and was visible from downtown St. Pete.

People pulled out their cell phones to take photos and video of the amazing sight.

Some witnesses shared what they saw on the WFLA News Channel 8 Facebook page.

Nancy Westphal snapped a great shot of the water spout from the Hangar Restaurant which overlooks the runway at Albert Whitted Airport.
Tom Bradley could see the waterspout from his food truck, The Cheesecake Truck, which was parked near the water. Bradley recorded a video of the waterspout.

A series of earthquakes, including one of magnitude 6.6, struck in waters off the west coast of Mexico early on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of any damage.

The 6.6 magnitude quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey initially reported at a magnitude of 6.8, struck at sea around 106 km (66 miles) southwest of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, at a depth of 10 km.

There were three other smaller quakes nearby, ranging in magnitude from 4.9 to 5.3.

"The biggest one felt reasonably strong, but there have been no reports of damage," an emergency services official said by telephone from Los Mochis, which is located in northern Sinaloa, and sits across the Gulf of California from the south of the Baja California peninsula.

A 19-year-old girl was mauled to death by a wild bear in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, police said today.

The victim identified as Zareena Bano, a resident of Batnard village, was grazing her cattle in the nearby forest last evening when she was attacked and killed by the beast, a police spokesperson said.

The mutilated body of the deceased was handed over to her next of kin for last rites, the Spokesperson said.

In a similar incident, a 16-year-old boy was critically injured in a bear's attack at Kandiwara-Sundernar village in Kokernag area of Anantnag district in south Kashmir last evening.

The victim identified as Sauyab Ahmad Chowhan was playing outside his house when he was attacked by the bear, the Spokesperson said, adding that he has been admitted to a hospital.

Source: Press Trust of India

A 62-year-old man is in serious condition at a Seattle hospital after being mauled by a brown bear in Alaska during a walk in the woods.

A 62-year-old man is in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle hospital after being mauled by a bear in Alaska.

Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Danny High of Funny River, Alaska, was in intensive care Monday at Harborview Medical Center.

Alaska State Troopers say High was not armed with a gun or bear spray when he was attacked Sunday.

Troopers described High's injuries as major when he was flown from the scene to the Seattle hospital.

Troopers were unable to find the bear.

Funny River is on the Kenai Peninsula.

Source: The Associated Press

Raging wildfires in California have killed one person as firemen struggle to fight the spreading blazes amid a state of emergency. Hundreds of houses have been charred, with devastating photos showing homes completely gutted, only their foundations left standing.

The blazing inferno consists of two fires - the Valley Fire and the Rough Fire, both of which continue to gain ground as at least 5,000 firefighters try to extinguish the fast-spreading flames.