A landslide in Turkey's eastern Erzincan region has buried a gold mine, and at least nine workers at the site have been declared missing by authorities.
Footage circulating on social media captured the moment a torrent of muddy earth burst into a valley near the mine in the İliç district.
Turkey's interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, said 400 people from the country's emergency agency, AFAD, had been dispatched to the mine to rescue the trapped workers.
A fatality occurred as a result of intense rainfall in the southern region of Antalya, Türkiye, on Tuesday. Educational activities were halted for a day in six districts, while efforts are underway to evacuate individuals stranded in residences and vehicles.
The lifeless body of a person was found in a car trapped in the flooded underpass of Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev subway on Gazi Boulevard in the Kepez district in the country's tourism capital.
The downpour, which began in the evening in the city center, intensified overnight. Transportation was disrupted due to water accumulation on roads and underpasses caused by the heavy rainfall.
A statement from the Antalya Governorship emphasized the persistence of adverse weather conditions in the city and warned citizens, while several measures were immediately taken.
A monsoonal trough has brought heavy rainfall to Darwin at levels not experienced since 2017, causing flooding in some suburbs.
As the weather system moves east, the Bureau of Meteorology has predicted there is a 30 per cent chance it could develop into a cyclone over the Gulf of Carpentaria at the end of the week.
BOM senior meteorologist Rebecca Patrick said the monsoon had redeveloped over the Northern Territory's north on Monday, with some areas in Darwin receiving more than 150 millimetres of rainfall over the past 24 hours.
"Rainfall in the Darwin area is the highest that we've seen in terms of those daily rainfall amounts since about 2017," she said.
She said Darwin Airport had received 165mm over 24 hours.
The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Demak Regency, Central Java noted that the number of residents of Demak Regency who fled due to flooding reached 8,170 people. Where the victims came from various areas affected by the flood.
"The number of displaced residents is the result of data collection as of Thursday (9/2) at 22.00 WIB," said Acting Head of BPBD Demak Regency M Agus Nugroho Luhur quoting Antara.
Of course, he said, the number of refugees also included the impact of flooding experienced by residents in Karanganyar District, following the breakdown of the Wulan River and Jratun River embankments.
Thousands of refugees, some occupy places of worship, village halls, and schools. While the most refugees in Kedungwaru Village, Lor reached 4,500 people, followed by Undaan Kidul Village reaching 2,569 people. While in other places the number of refugees varies.
The driest place in North America became flooded this week when an atmospheric river storm drenched Death Valley National Park in California.
The storm dropped 1.5 inches of rainfall in just the four days between Sunday and Wednesday, rivaling the park's annual average rainfall amount of nearly 2 inches, according to the National Park Service.
This downpour prompted the closure of several park roads after flash flooding on Tuesday night. Debris had to be removed from some roads to reopen them, but some side roads remain closed due to storm damage.
Park visitors are encouraged to check the Death Valley National Park website for the most up-to-date road closures and conditions information.
Natalie Campbell iriefm.net Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:24 UTC
Major coastal flooding left a trail of damage along the country's North Coast on Tuesday.
Flooding was reported in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Montego Bay, St. James, Falmouth, Trelawny, Negril in Westmoreland and Hanover.
Hotels and cruise ship piers were impacted.
The Met Service explains that the strong winds and coastal flooding from large waves are expected to continue across Jamaica and its territorial waters through to Friday.
The death toll has increased to nine people during a massive, atmospheric river-driven storm in California as public officials warned people it was too soon to let their guard down.
The storm, which has unleashed biblical proportions of rain this week, was expected to continue until Thursday or Friday.
Four people were killed by falling trees, the California Office of Emergency Management said. Three were killed in vehicle collisions in the Bay area, and another fatality was due to a vehicle being swept away in a flood channel. One person lost their life by trying to cross the US-Mexico border via the Tijuana River.
Search and rescue crews are looking for a US Marine Corps helicopter which disappeared en route to San Diego on Tuesday night as the severe storm battered the region. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, which had five Marines on board, was reported "overdue" after it failed to arrive at Miramar Air Station from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Faizan Hashmi Urdupoint Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:20 UTC
At least six people were killed and three were missing after a landslide in western Georgia, officials said on Wednesday.
The landslide happened in the early hours of the morning in the village of Nergeti, some 170 kilometres from the Black Sea nation's capital Tbilisi.
"The number of landslide victims rose to six," Georgia's emergency situations service said in a statement, adding that "a search operation is underway to find three missing people."
"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."
~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe
- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
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