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Flash flood kills 6 children in South Africa

Dave Chambers and Lulamile Feni
Times Live
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 20:06 UTC
Parents and grandparents break down
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Parents and grandparents break down after being told searchers had found the bodies of four children swept away by a flash flood while crossing a river between Freystata village and Popopo Primary on March 7 2019
The army has been ordered in after six Matatiele children were swept to their deaths in a flash flood on Wednesday.

Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said the Engineer Corps would urgently construct a bridge over the Mgxojeni river in the village of Pontseng, which claimed the lives of children between the ages of 5 and 7 as they were walking home from school.

Witnesses said the victims were among 17 children who were caught halfway across the river when floodwaters suddenly arrived. All of them were swept away but villagers rescued 11.
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Signs and Portents: Two-headed calf born in Washington County, Tennessee


wjhl.com
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:55 UTC
Two-headed calf

Two-headed calf
Two-headed calf named 'Chance' born in Washington County, Tennessee

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2 labourers dead in landslide in Uttarakhand, India


Times of India
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:42 UTC
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Two labourers working on the Char Dham all-weather road project in Tehri district of Uttarakhand were killed in a landslide on Wednesday evening.

The incident occurred near Nagni on Chamba-Rishikesh stretch of the Rs 12,000 crore all-weather Char Dham road project. An operator and a helper were operating the earthmover on the road construction site when a landslide took place, bringing down silt and boulders on the machine.
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'Falling out of trees': Dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress in Victoria, Australia

Lisa Cox
The Guardian
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:29 UTC
Wildlife rescuers found 127 dead and injured ringtail possums at Somers Beach in Victoria during a four-day heat spell.
© Wildlife rescuers found 127 dead and injure Alyse Huyton
Wildlife rescuers found 127 dead and injured ringtail possums at Somers Beach in Victoria during a four-day heat spell.
Rescuers found 127 ringtail possums along the shoreline and in the water on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula

More than 100 dead and injured ringtail possums have been found by wildlife rescuers along a single stretch of beach in Victoria in what ecologists say is becoming an annual occurrence due to extreme heat.

Rescuers and wildlife carers discovered 127 ringtail possums along the shoreline and in the water at Somers Beach on the Mornington Peninsula on Saturday during a four-day period that saw consistent temperatures in the high 30s, warm nights and bushfires in parts of the state.

Melanie Attard, a wildlife rescuer and foster carer with Aware Wildlife in Frankston, said rescuers suspected the animals had become so dehydrated and desperate they had left an area of scrub and come down to the beach and attempted to drink salt water.

"We assume they've come out due to the heat stress heading for the water in desperation," she said.
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Toddler mauled to death by 2 family dogs in High Springs, Florida


fox35orlando
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:41 UTC
canine attack
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A Florida toddler was mauled to death by a family dog on Friday. The attack happened in the community of High Springs, just outside of Gainesville.

The Alachua County Sheriff's Office says the 2-year-old boy was with his grandmother as she went to her daughter's home to check on the dogs. The grandmother let the dogs out in the yard with the boy while she went inside to prepare food.

"She's inside briefly. When she goes back outside, she can no longer see her grandson, can no longer see the dogs," explained Lt. Brett Rodenizer with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

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Cold streak in southern California continues, nears record


losangeles.cbslocal.com
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 11:23 UTC
cold walkers
It has been one of the longest stretches ever recorded of high temperatures below 70 degrees in Southern California, and people are taking notice.

It was far from a good beach day in Santa Monica on Friday.

"I literally felt like I was going to be blown over into the ocean earlier," said Julie Marshall.

Strong winds and cold temperatures took many tourists out walking by surprise.

"This is a little bit different than what I'm used to," said Alex Sabur of Baltimore. "We are supposed to be warm not cold."


Comment: Also relevant: Global Warming? Los Angeles experiences coldest February in 60 years

Storm breaks 135-year-old rainfall record for downtown Los Angeles

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Deadly floods in Malawi - at least 6 dead, thousands displaced


Floodlist
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC
Flooding of the Shire River
© Government of Malawi
Flooding of the Shire River in Southern Region of Malawi, March 2019.
Heavy rains in southern and central parts of Malawi have caused flooding and rivers to overflow, in particular the Shire River in Chikwawa, where local media say 6 people have died.

The government of Malawi said in a statement of 07 March, that "Thousands of people have been displaced and a good number of people reported missing and others feared dead in the southern part of Malawi due to a heavy downfall of rain that started on 05 March, 2019. Malawi Red Cross volunteers and staff have embarked on search and rescue."

Floods have rendered the Kamuzu and Mwanza bridges on the Shire River in Chikwawa impassable.

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Earthquake of 6.2 magnitude strikes off southern Philippines


Xinhua
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:21 UTC
Earthquake seismograph
An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck off Surigao del Norte province in the southern Philippines on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

Initially, the institute said the quake was magnitude 6.4. But a few minutes later the institute revised its magnitude to 6.2.

In an updated bulletin, the institute said the quake, which struck at 11:06 p.m., hit at a depth of 16 kilometers, about 38 km northwest of Burgos town in Surigao del Norte.

However, in the main Burgos town, the institute said the intensity of the earthquake was only magnitude 5.

The tremor was also felt in Dinagat Island, Butuan City, Abuyog in Leyte province, Tacloban City in Southern Leyte, Camiguin Island, Cebu City in the central Philippines.

The institute said the tremor, which was tectonic in origin, is not expected to cause damage. However, it said that aftershocks are expected.
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Wetter than ever: Winter 2018-19 was USA's soggiest in recorded history

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:40 UTC
Winter 2018-19 was the wettest on record
© NOAA
Winter 2018-19 was the wettest on record in the Untied States
Umbrellas and snow shovels would have been wise investments over the past three months.

The winter of 2018-19 was the wettest winter ever recorded in the United States, according to a report federal scientists released Wednesday. (Climate scientists define winter as the months of December, January and February.)

In all, 43 of the "Lower 48" states had above-average levels of rain and snow from December to February, the report said. Tennessee was record wet while Wisconsin had its second-wettest winter.

In Tennessee, the colossal rains caused deadly flooding across the state in February. The floods killed four people, washed out homes, buried two stretches of interstate highway under tons of mud and rock, and led to a statewide declaration of emergency.
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Pack of pit bulls attack four people in Akron, Ohio

Ian Cross
News 5 Cleveland
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:18 UTC
pit bull in cage

One of the three dogs that allegedly attacked four people in Akron.
Four people, including a mail carrier, were bitten by a pack of three dogs in two separate incidents in Akron Monday morning, according to police.

At about 10:30 a.m., officers were called to the 800 block of Reed Avenue for a report of three dogs biting. When police arrived, the dogs had already left the scene. One victim said she was getting out of her van when she was attacked. She said she was brought to the ground by the dogs, who then bit her on both sides of her body from her torso to her feet.

A man overhead the woman screaming, and tried to fight the dogs off from the woman, an Akron police report states. He was bitten numerous times in the left arm.
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