Torrential rain over the past few days has caused more devastating floods in the state of Karnataka in southwest India.
Government officials said that 12 people have lost their lives in the recent floods. As many as 5,444 houses have been damage, forcing thousands of people to move to relief camps.
Several districts have been affected, including Belagavi, Bagalkote, Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu and Haveri, Chitradurga, Gadag and Dharrwad.
Belagavi district has reportedly suffered some of the worst damage. Two teams from India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are working in the district to carry out evacuations and rescues. Another NDRF team is operating in Gadag district.
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Emergency services were deployed throughout the night to try and find people who had disappeared during the freak flash floods (poor weather conditions pictured in Sant Antonio, Spain)
The body of a 75-year-old man who disappeared in the Arenys de Mar municipality during Spain's freak flash floods has been found.
He was discovered on a beach near Arenys, Spain, this morning.
He went missing as he went to move his car which had been swept away by a swollen river, yesterday.
The man is the same civilian who emergency teams had searched for throughout the night, according to the regional Mossos d'Esquadra force. He was discovered on a beach near Arenys this morning.
It has also emerged that a 52-year-old man died in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat southwest of Barcelona after being run over by a train in an incident blamed on the storms.
A puting beliung (small tornado) swept through three different villages in Batu city in East Java over the weekend, leaving one dead and over 1,000 residents displaced.
The tornado destroyed about 20 houses, a telecommunications transmitter and parts of the electricity network in three villages: Sumber Brantas, Gunungsari and Sumbergondo.
Several trees fell and blocked access to the affected areas. Sodiq, a resident of Jurang Kuali hamlet in Sumber Brantas village, was killed by a falling tree, news site tempo.co reported.
Over 1,200 residents took shelter in five locations, including at the mayor's residence and the Batu Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) compound.
San Francisco tests the EMS broadcasting system referencing the 1989 Earthquake and it seem so many countries across the planet are withholding or decreasing outbound grain exports. China setting up for South American grain deliveries forever with new ports and the understanding that during the Maunder Minimum South American temperatures changed very little compared to the N. Hemisphere.
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Disaster management authorities in Vietnam report flooding in central areas of the country after severe weather including strong winds, lightning and heavy rain from around 15 October, 2019.
Flooding affected the provinces of Nghệ An, Bình Định and Hà Tĩnh provinces. Three fatalities were reported in Nghệ An, where 5 houses were destroyed and 5,250 houses damaged by flood water. Wide areas of crops and aquatic farms have been damaged in the province. The heavy rain also triggered landslides which blocked important roads in several areas.
Heavy rain in northern Italy has caused floods and landslides in the regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria.
Italy's fire department, Vigili del Fuoco, said they carried out 900 operations across the north in response to the severe weather, including 226 in the province of Milan, 220 in Alessandria, 110 in Pavia, 110 in Lodi and 110 in Genoa.
Rail and road traffic has been severely disrupted across the 3 regions. Many schools are also closed in Liguria and Piedmont.
The province of Alessandria in Piedmont is among the worst hit areas. Piedmont Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA) reported that on 22 October, 2019 as much as 253mm of rain fell in 12 hours in Casaleggio Boiro.
A 55-year-old man was mauled to death by a pack of street dogs in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday night.
Police said the man, identified as Tej Singh, was viciously attacked by the canines while he was returning home Sunday evening. However, the incident came to light only on Monday morning after a villager found the dogs biting the flesh off a dead body.
Speaking to local daily the Times of India, a police officer said, "The victim was killed in a gruesome attack by a pack of dogs that roam around a nearby poultry farm. Local residents claimed that scores of locals have been attacked by the pack in the past too. However, this is the first time a death has been reported."
"The victim's body has been handed over to his relatives after conducting the autopsy. He was a daily wager working at a construction site," the officer added.