Heavy rains cause severe flooding in Caracas, Venezuela
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Heavy rains cause severe flooding in Caracas, Venezuela
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Search and rescue operations after a landslide in South Tapanuli Regency.
Search and rescue operations after a landslide in South Tapanuli Regency.
Indonesia's disaster agency BNPB said the landslides were caused by heavy rainfall in the area. Two buildings and a vehicle were buried in the slide, with 12 people feared missing.
Since then search and rescue operations have found the bodies of 5 victims, with 8 people thought to be still missing. The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of South Tapanuli Regency said search operations are ongoing but the remote location on steep slopes has made it difficult to use heavy digging equipment.
The woman's body was found off U.S. Highway 550 near Trimble, north of Durango.
According to the La Plata County Sheriff's office, the woman's boyfriend said the victim went walking with her two dogs earlier Friday.
When the boyfriend returned home later in the evening, he found the two dogs but the woman was missing.
The boyfriend found the woman's body around 9:30 p.m. and called 911 to report the incident.
Wildlife officers responded and observed signs of consumption on the body and an abundance of bear scat and hair at the scene.
The deceased Leborius Nongsiang (17) and Leding Rongrin (37) were among the 15 people who were constructing the cattle shed at the time of the incident.
Mawjaw Langrin, Sordar of Mawngap village, said, "The incident occurred at around 12 pm when they were taking shelter from downpour in the cattle shed. However, a thunder struck the cattle shed out of the blue and the two died on the spot."
The village dorbar informed the Riangdo PS about the incident and the bodies were handed over to the families while the others, who sustained injuries, were shifted to Riangdo CHC.
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According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the earthquake hit off of Coquimbo on Sunday morning. The quake's epicentre was located at a depth of around 10 km (6.2 miles).
So far, there have been no reports about any damages or casualties, caused by the tremor.
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Ferocious winds uprooted trees, ripped the facades from buildings and filled the streets with lethal debris.
The majority of the people killed were hit by falling trees and telephone poles or were blown into the Yangtze river which winds through the city of over eight million people located roughly 62 miles (100 km) from Shanghai.
Comment: A couple of days ago fierce hail storms battered Texas and Oklahoma in the US causing 'billion-dollar' damage.
"After the recent warm days, there was a breeze of cold," is how hmn.ru puts it — and to paraphrase the rest, as the translation gets jumbled, the last week of April was not only cool in and around the Moscow region, but conditions were akin to those suffered in the depths of winter, with substantial snowfall totals to match.
Eastern regions reportedly saw the greatest snow cover, which lingered on the ground for some time, long enough for children to make snowmen and have snowball fights.
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A sign in snow in Amsterdam. 6 Apr 2020
A sign in snow in Amsterdam. 6 Apr 2020
The drop in temperatures was particularly evident in Drenthe. Eelde in Drenthe recorded a total of 18 frost days in April, the highest number throughout the country. The village also measured the lowest temperatures nationwide last month. On April 26, temperatures fell to minus 4.5 degrees Celsius.
Temperatures had even been higher in February this year compared to April 2021. On February 24, temperatures crept up to 18.7 degrees, higher than the warmest temperature in April at 17.8 degrees in certain areas.
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Met Office confirms it has been the coldest April for almost 100 years .
Met Office confirms it has been the coldest April for almost 100 years .
The Met Office says frost and clear conditions combined for a chilly month, despite long spells of sunshine.
Provisional figures from the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre show April had the third lowest average temperature since records began back in 1884.
In fact, the average temperature in April was the lowest seen in Britain since 1922.
Police were called to the 1400 block of Oak Grove Road just after 5 p.m.
Officers found a child under the age of five that had been attacked by the family dog in the backyard. They were taken to a nearby hospital, but later died.
Comment: On the same day a lightning strike killed 2 in Nashik, India.