Ramzi Mahmud and Betul Yilmaz Anadolu Agency Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:06 UTC
Heavy rains flooded thousands of tents sheltering displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, witnesses said.
Heavy rainfall began before dawn, submerging thousands of tents in several areas across the enclave.
According to an Anadolu reporter, the water level exceeded 40 centimeters inside some tents.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal warned in a video statement of an "imminent humanitarian disaster" resulting from the current bad weather conditions.
According to forecasts, rains are expected to continue in Gaza until Friday.
Basal said that aid entering Gaza still falls far short of the needs of the territory's 2.4 million residents facing a severe humanitarian crisis, calling for immediate international action.
Hussien Elkabany and Rania Abu Shamala Anadolu Agency Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:07 UTC
Two people were killed and five others injured on Tuesday after heavy floods and flash torrents swept through Sulaymaniyah province in northern Iraq's Kurdish region, according to the regional civil defense agency.
The state news agency INA, citing the Civil Defense Directorate, said the victims were caught in flooding in the district of Chamchamal in Sulaymaniyah.
A school wall collapsed in the Shorash sub-district due to strong torrents, causing the death of a 70-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, the directorate said.
Civil defense teams have continued rescue and evacuation efforts amid warnings of further rainfall and unstable weather conditions across the region.
Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 20 deaths, officials said on Thursday (November 27, 2025).
The government's disaster management center said 18 of the reported deaths occurred in the tea-growing, mountainous regions of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya in the country's central province about 300 kilometres (186 miles) east of the capital Colombo.
Another 14 people were missing on Thursday due to landslides in the same areas, the center said.
The death toll has risen to 31 since last week, when Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather. Heavy downpours over the weekend wreaked havoc by flooding homes, fields and roads.
Authorities stopped trains in some areas in the mountainous region after rocks, muds and trees fell onto tracks and local television showed workers busy removing the debris. Roads also were closed due to heavy flooding.
The severe weather has impacted about 4,000 families, the center said.
Sri Lanka has closed government offices and schools as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country has risen to 56, with more than 600 houses damaged, according to officials.
Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather last week, and the conditions worsened on Thursday with heavy downpours that flooded homes, fields and roads, and triggered landslides across the country.
At least 193 people have been confirmed dead across Sri Lanka as authorities continue to battle rising floodwaters in parts of the capital after a powerful cyclone left a trail of destruction.
More heavy rains brought on by Cyclone Ditwah are expected across the island nation in the coming days, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said on Sunday, adding that more than 220 people remain missing.
The death toll from extreme weather conditions in Sri Lanka has risen to 410, while 336 people remain missing, the country's Disaster Management Center said on Tuesday.
The cyclone's has affected than 1.4 million people across 25 districts, turning homes into rubble and forcing thousands into shelters.
At least 13 people have been killed and three others remain missing after flash floods and a series of landslides hit seven districts and cities in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, local authorities said Wednesday.
A total of 13 people were confirmed dead and 37 injured since Saturday, while three people are still unaccounted for, state-run Antara news agency reported, citing Wahyuni Pancasilawati, head of emergency response, equipment and logistics at the North Sumatra Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD).
Multiple landslides and flash floods were reported across the province in recent days, Wahyuni said.
Heavy rainfall and flooding also damaged 330 houses and displaced 2,244 people in several areas, according to the agency.
In neighboring Malaysia, authorities said 21,834 people have been displaced by ongoing flooding in several northern states.
The death toll from floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra island has risen to 174, up from the previous 94, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Friday, adding that dozens remain missing.
The Guardianreports 250mm (9.8 inches) fell on the island in 24 hours.
A total of 303 people died and 279 remain missing after flash floods and landslides struck three provinces in Indonesia's Sumatra region, the country's National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Saturday, Xinhua reports.
BNPB Chief Suharyanto told a press conference that North Sumatra suffered the highest number of casualties, with 166 deaths and 143 people still unaccounted for. In West Sumatra, 90 people were confirmed dead and 85 missing, while in Aceh, 47 fatalities were recorded and 51 people remained missing.
The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island rose to 708 on Dec 2, the disaster agency said, as authorities rushed to repair infrastructure and deliver aid to cut-off areas.
The agency in a press conference late on Dec 2 said 708 people had been killed since last week, a figure lower than the 753 reported on its website earlier in the day. It did not give a reason for the discrepancy.
Close to 900 people have been killed in floods and landslides that have wreaked havoc in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, which follow months of adverse and deadly weather in South-east Asia, including successive typhoons that struck the Philippines and Vietnam and added to frequent and prolonged flooding elsewhere.
Residents in Indonesia's Aceh Tamiang district were forced to scramble over fallen trees and wrecked vehicles on Saturday (December 6) as they made a gruelling hour-long walk to reach emergency supplies, with the death toll from this month's devastating floods and landslides on Sumatra now exceeding 900.
Cyclone-driven downpours have triggered floods and landslides across three provinces on Sumatra, including Aceh, killing 908 people and leaving 410 still unaccounted for, according to government figures released on Saturday.
The same storm systems have also claimed about 200 lives in southern Thailand and Malaysia.
Terrifying images show streets turned into fast-flowing rivers and cars carried away in the floods as red weather warnings have been issued in a popular holiday destination for Brits.
Authorities on the Greek islands Rhodes and Lemnos declared a state of emergency this week after Storm Byron made landfall, leaving two dead and causing widespread damage. And now the extreme conditions have spread across much of the country, with the south and east most affected.
The regions now on maximum alert are Attica, Central Macedonia (especially Pieria, Imathia, Chalkidiki and Thessaloniki), Thessaly, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Ionian Islands, North Aegean, South Aegean (with particular emphasis on Santorini/Thira and Rhodes) and Crete.
A landslide in the Amazon region in Peru has killed at least 12 people and injured another 20, the authorities said Monday.
Local health authorities said two people are still unaccounted for and that national police and navy units had been sent to the area by helicopters to support the rescue operation.
The landslide struck around 4:20 a.m. local time (10:20 CET) in the river port of Iparia in the Amazon jungle region of Ucayali, 415 kilometers (258 miles) from the capital Lima, hitting two boats that were making their way to other towns in the area.
Three children are among the casualties.
More than half of Peru is covered by dense forest, including a wide expanse of the Amazon basin.
Heavy rain, hail and lightning from Storm Adel swept across Greece on Friday, striking Athens and several regions with early-morning downpours.
The National Observatory reported 52 millimeters of rain in Faliro and 50 mm in Alimos and Kifissia by 9 a.m.
Hail and lightning triggered major delays across Attica, with part of Pireos Street briefly closed and water outside Moschato's rail station reaching 1 meter, forcing passengers to cross in a municipal pickup.
By midafternoon, hail hit Lesvos, clogging drains and flooding streets and shops in Mytilene. Civil protection officials urged residents to avoid travel. In Mesolongi, four soldiers were hospitalized after lightning struck the 2/39 Evzones Regiment; three were released, and one was moved to Patra for tests.
Eleven municipalities closed schools as landslides, fallen trees and power outages were reported in Epirus, Corfu and Foinikounta.
The rainfall in the past three days has reached critical levels and floodwaters rose across multiple parts of the city.
The Hat Yai Municipality has issued a red-flag flood alert, warning residents in 103 communities to evacuate to safe areas as accumulated rainfall over the past three days reached critical levels and floodwaters rose across multiple parts of the city.
As at Nov 22, continuous heavy rain sent large volumes of water into key areas within Hat Yai Municipality.
Water levels at several locations have reached emergency thresholds, severely disrupting transport, especially along Saeng Sri Road, Kim Yong Market, and neighbouring commercial zones.
At 8am local time, Hat Yai mayor Narongporn Na Phatthalung, who also directs the city's Flood Prevention and Mitigation Command Centre, issued a statement to update residents on the worsening flood situation and to formally declare the red-flag alert.
595mm of rain in three days
The alert noted that since Nov 19, Hat Yai has recorded 595mm of cumulative rainfall, surpassing the totals seen during both the 2000 flood (497mm) and the 2010 flood (516mm).
Heavy rain has hit the U-Ta Khao basin, especially the eastern side of Hat Yai Municipality — including Khao Kho Hong, Khlong Plo basin and Khlong Rian basin.
Southern Thailand is confronting its most severe flooding in over three centuries as relentless monsoon rains have killed at least eight people and affected nearly 2 million residents across 10 provinces.
The southern trading hub Hat Yai district in Songkhla province recorded its heaviest single-day rainfall in more than 300 years, prompting authorities to declare all 16 districts in Songkhla a disaster zone.
The death toll from devastating floods across southern Thailand has risen to 145, with more than 100 people killed in the hard-hit Songkhla province alone, according to the government.
Devastating flooding has overwhelmed southern Thailand this week, particularly in the Hat Yai district, near the border with Malaysia.
The "total deaths across the southern provinces is 145", with Songkhla accounting for 110, government spokesman Siripong Angkasakulkiat told a news conference on Friday, updating earlier figures.
He said search and rescue efforts have become more successful as floodwaters started to recede further.
News reports showed rescuers gained more access to residential areas that had previously been submerged under high water, and recovered more bodies, particularly in Hat Yai, the largest city in the south.
French Polynesian authorities have retrieved a total of eight bodies that were buried following a major landslide on its main island of Tahiti.
The disaster struck several houses in the town of Afaahiti-Taravao, southeast of Tahiti, on Wednesday, around 5am local time (Thursday NZT).
The final toll comes after one day and one night of searching for potential survivors.
The search operations involved about 200 emergency staff, gendarmes and firemen, medical emergency teams, underground cameras, radars, drones but also an army helicopter as well as sniffer dogs.
One of the victims is a three-year-old girl.
Earlier, in this hillside village, search operations had to stop due to more landslides and collapse of whole portions of the mountain soaked by huge amounts of water accumulated, following days of torrential rains.
Nhlanhla Mabaso ewn.co.za Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:36 UTC
Preliminary information suggests that several residential properties have sustained flood damage, and road infrastructure, including bridges, has been affected
At least three people have been swept away by floods in KwaZulu-Natal as heavy rains hit the province.
A search-and-rescue process in underway in New Hanover, where houses have been submerged in water and critical infrastructure damaged.
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning of more downpours.
The recent severe weather has brought panic in the New Hanover, as some people have had to evacuate their homes due to flooding.
KZN Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (GOGTA) spokesperson Senzelwe Mzila said a search-and-rescue mission is underway.
"Disaster management teams are working around the clock to locate the missing [people]."
Residents have been warned to stay vigilant, as the weather warning remains in place.
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