Seven people from two families were killed in separate incidents of landslides triggered by incessant rains in western Nepal in the last 24 hours, police said on Monday.
Four members of a family were buried alive in the Bajhang district as a landslide swept away a house at the Bungal municipality-10 on Sunday night, according to the police.
Those killed included 50-year-old Kali Dhami, her daughter-in-law and grandchildren aged six and three, said the police.
However, six other members of the family managed to escape from nature's fury.
Stephen Romney Fox13now.com Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:39 UTC
One person is dead after a fishing boat was struck by lightning in the Bear River late Saturday night, prompting an hours-long, multi-agency recovery operation.
The Box Elder County Sheriff's Office said it responded to reports of a lightning strike just after midnight Sunday in the Corinne area.
lInitial findings indicated that three people were on the boat when it was struck. The strike then caused the boat to capsize, sending them into the water. Two of the people were able to make it to shore, but the third went underwater and did not come back up.
Multiple agencies were called in to conduct an hours-long search of the river, later finding the body around 5:30 a.m.
The two survivors were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The victim's identity has not been released, pending notification of family or next-of-kin.
Idris Salisu Leadership.ng Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:47 UTC
Many people were reported killed while no fewer than 2,000 houses were submerged by flood in Gummi town, headquarters of Gummi local government area of Zamfara State yesterday, but the state commissioner for humanitarian affairs and disaster management, Hon. Musa Yusuf Tsafe, said there was no report of death.
A resident who gave his name as Alhaji Abu Cash down, told our correspondent on telephone that property worth of millions of naira was lost, while a large number of livestock including cows, sheep, donkeys and goats were flushed away by the torrential rains.
Abu said most of the people that died were women and children who could not escape from the strong water flow.
According to him, the heavy rains started Friday around 9:00am and continued till 4:00am on Saturday.
Hurricane Ernesto pounded Bermuda Saturday with powerful winds and 35-foot waves, drenching the British island territory in heavy rain that it is expected could cause deadly flooding.
Residents of Bermuda reported a temporary calm as the eye of the storm passed overhead. However, the island was expected to endure hours of punishing winds and rain over the weekend as the storm crawled north.
The centre of the storm is forecast to continue moving away from Bermuda Saturday as it approaches southwestern Newfoundland late on Monday, the U.S. Weather Service said.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Far East Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday morning local time, according to the regional earthquake monitoring service.
The local emergencies ministry said tremors were felt along the coast including in the region's capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
"Operational teams of rescuers and firefighters are inspecting buildings," the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry in the Kamchatka region said on Telegram.
The earthquake struck at a depth of nearly 50 kilometers just after 7:00 am local time, some 90 Kilometers east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the United States Geological Survey reported.
The report said the ash column has risen as high as 8 kilometres above the sea level.
Russia's Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka region erupted after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of the country, local media reported on Sunday.
The volcano has started to "spew ash and lava", the state-owned TASS news agency reported, citing the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano has begun... According to visual evaluations, the ash column is rising as high as 8 kilometres above the sea level," the report quoted scientists as saying.
Earlier on Saturday night (local time), a 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted a sea area off the east coast of Kamchatka.
Firefighters across Türkiye mobilized to extinguish wildfires and rural fires, some of which reached residential areas on Friday.
"Today, a total of 47 fires have broken out across the country, including forest and rural fires. Of these, 30 have been brought under control, while our efforts to contain the remaining 17 are ongoing," said Ibrahim Yumaklı, the country's agriculture and forestry minister.
In addition to forest teams, local municipalities, police, Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), and gendarmerie personnel are contributing to the firefighting efforts with their vehicles, the Presidential Communications Directorate said, adding that five firefighting planes, 15 helicopters, and other squads are assisting the firefighting efforts.
In Izmir, evacuations were ordered in several neighborhoods and an animal shelter in the area was also evacuated.
Roads leading to the affected zones were closed, with gendarmerie and police enforcing security measures.
In the unfortunate incidents, nine people died while 12 others were injured in separate lightning strikes across Odisha on Saturday, the police said. Expressing grief over the unnatural deaths, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced an ex-gratia to the next of kin of the deceased.
Giving details about the deceased, the chief minister's office on Saturday said that two deaths each were reported in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, and Bhadrak districts. Moreover, one death each was reported in Keonjhar, Dhenkanal and Ganjam districts.
In Bargah district, 12 people were injured in a lightning strike in a field near Munupali village in Barpali block. Among these 12 injured, the condition of four was stated to be critical. All of them were shifted to the hospital where they were undergoing treatment. Meanwhile, CM Manjhi expressed grief and announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased. For the injured, CM Manjhi announced free treatment and wished a speedy recovery.
A total of 106 sheep were killed in a lightning strike at Jajur village of Challakere taluk on Friday night. Sudden rain accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning struck the village. The sheep were owned by two shepherds, Anjaneya and Obanna, who lost 90 and 16 sheep, respectively.
The lightning strike has caused huge loss to shepherds, who depend on the sheep for their livelihood. The shepherds have appealed to the authorities to provide compensation.
The Animal Husbandry Department officials visited the spot and conducted post-mortem on the sheep. They have also assured to provide compensation to the affected farmers under the Anugraha scheme.
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