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26 dead, 25 missing as heavy rains trigger landslides, floods across Kenya (UPDATE)


The Star (Kenya)
Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:24 UTC
Severe effects of the mudslides that have wreaked havoc on homes and farmlands across Elgeyo Marakwet
© Severe effects of the mudslides that have wreaked havoc on homes and farmlands across Elgeyo MarakwetSevere effects of the mudslides that have wreaked havoc on homes and farmlands across Elgeyo Marakwet
At least 13 people have died and dozens have been displaced as heavy rains continue to pound several parts of the country, triggering landslides, flash floods, and widespread destruction.

In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration said the ongoing October - November - December short rains have caused "tragic loss of life, injuries, and destruction of property" in multiple counties.

The worst-hit area is Machember Sub-location in Mukurtwo, where a massive landslide struck on Friday night following intense rainfall. "So far, 13 bodies have been retrieved, while search and rescue efforts continue under difficult conditions," the ministry said.

Nineteen survivors have been rescued, while several others are receiving treatment at Chesongoch Mission Hospital.


Comment: Update November 2

Anadolu Ajansı reports:
The death toll from a landslide in Kenya's Rift Valley has risen to 26, as rescue teams continue searching for dozens of people still reported missing following heavy rains, the country's interior minister said on Sunday.

Kipchumba Murkomen told reporters that 26 people have been found dead and 25 others are still missing.

The landslide occurred early Saturday in the Elgeyo Marakwet East region, which is in its rainy season and lies 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of the East African nation's capital, Nairobi.

Murkomen said on Saturday that preparations were underway to deliver more food and non-food relief to affected families, with military and police helicopters on standby to assist in transportation.

Authorities have appealed to residents in high-risk zones to heed evacuation warnings as rescue operations continue in Elgeyo Marakwet.

Recent heavy rainfall has caused flooding and landslides across several counties, displacing hundreds and damaging key infrastructure.


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6 dead in Telangana, India as Cyclone Montha triggers heavy rains and flooding


Outlook
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:03 UTC
Greater Warangal city remains waterlogged for the second consecutive day
© ETV BharatGreater Warangal city remains waterlogged for the second consecutive day
At least six persons died in separate rain-related incidents after heavy rains lashed different parts of Telangana due to the impact of Cyclone 'Montha' on October 29, police and district officials said on Friday.

A husband and wife were washed away while trying to cross an overflowing stream on a two-wheeler in Siddipet district and their bodies were traced on Friday, police said.

In other incidents, a man died when a road-side tree uprooted and fell on him while riding a bike in Suryapet district and an elderly woman died in a wall collapse incident in Mahabubabad district. A man in his mid 60s, who was bed-ridden, died when flood water entered his house in Warangal, officials further said.

There were some more incidents wherein people went missing after getting swept away in floodwaters

Heavy rains on October 29 led to waterlogging of roads and inundation of low-lying areas at several places in Warangal, Hanamakonda, Mahabubabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Nalgonda and Siddipet districts.

PTI


Comment: Related: Cyclone Montha triggers landslides in Odisha, India

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2 dead after New York City flooding that submerged vehicles, flooded subways after record rainfall

Meredith Deliso and Melissa Griffin
ABC News
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:52 UTC
A still from a video showing flooding in Brooklyn, New York, Oct. 30, 2025.
© Abigail Ekue PhotographyA still from a video showing flooding in Brooklyn, New York, Oct. 30, 2025.
At least two people died Thursday in flooded basements after record rainfall in parts of New York City that also deluged some streets and subway stations, according to police.

The New York Police Department confirmed the two deaths to ABC News.

ABC New York station WABC said a 39-year-old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in a flooded basement in Brooklyn. The FDNY Scuba Team recovered his body from the basement before he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

In a separate incident in Washington Heights, in northern Manhattan, police said the body of a 43-year-old man was found in a flooded boiler room, WABC reported.

Police are investigating both incidents.

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Landslide triggered by heavy rainfall, killed at least 22 people in rural Papua New Guinea

Dave Petley
eos.org
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:06 UTC
Villagers work to recover bodies after a landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga province.
© Ben McpituVillagers work to recover bodies after a landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga province.
At about 2 am on 31 October 2025, a landslide struck a rural community at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. News reports suggest that it was triggered by heavy rainfall and that 22 bodies have been recovered to date, but that the final toll may be as high as 30 people.

Loyal readers will know that tracking down landslides in rural PNG is a major challenge - the quality of baseline mapping of villages is quite poor. However, an ABC News report indicates that the landslide occurred in the vicinity of Pausa, so I think the most likely location is in the region of [-5.67878, 143.91848]:-

The likely location of the 25 October 2025 landslide at Kukas in PNG. I
The likely location of the 25 October 2025 landslide at Kukas in PNG.
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Spain's Seville and Huelva hit by torrential rain and flooding - almost 6 inches of rainfall in just 13 hours

Conor Faulkner
The Local (Spain)
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:20 UTC
Severe flooding hits Andalusia as storms leave streets underwater.
Severe flooding hits Andalusia as storms leave streets underwater.
On the anniversary of the devastating Valencia floods, the southern Spanish provinces of Seville and Huelva were hit with torrential rain and winds that flooded city streets and caused the cancellation of hundreds of inter-regional trains.

Heavy rain and stormy conditions battered western provinces of Andalusia on Wednesday, causing over a thousand incidents and the cancellation of trains across the region.

Hundreds of local, medium and long distance services were suspended between Seville, Huelva and Málaga due to flooding following the sudden downpours.

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Cyclone Montha triggers landslides in Odisha, India


Deccan Chronicle
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:22 UTC
A man points at boulders that fell during a landslide as a bulldozer clears debris from a road, at Linga village, in Gajapati district, Odisha, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
© PTIA man points at boulders that fell during a landslide as a bulldozer clears debris from a road, at Linga village, in Gajapati district, Odisha, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
Several parts of Odisha on Wednesday experienced light to moderate rain as the severe cyclonic storm Montha weakened into a deep depression and caused landslides, damaging roads, bridges and houses in southern districts, officials said.

Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari thanked Lord Jagannath as the severe cyclonic storm slightly changed its anticipated landfall place in Andhra Pradesh coast at a distance of about 300 kilometer from Odisha's Malkangiri district.

"The change in the cyclone's trajectory spared Odisha from severe devastation. Cyclone Montha changed its course and touched land near Amalapuram instead of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, reducing the potential impact on Odisha. Kakinada is about 200 kilometres from Malkangiri," Pujari told reporters after taking stock of the situation.

The minister said that the state government had made preparations keeping in view the IMD forecast and was prepared to face the eventuality.

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At least 9 killed in landslides as heavy rains batter Sebei, Uganda

David Ochieng
Nile Post
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:45 UTC
At least nine people, including
At least nine people, including three children from one family, have died and several others are missing after overnight landslides hit Bukwo and Kween districts in eastern Uganda, cutting off key roads and prompting fresh evacuation warnings.
At least nine people have been confirmed dead and several others remain missing after landslides swept through parts of the Sebei subregion following a night of heavy rainfall.

The worst-hit areas are Tuikat in Kween District and Chesower in Bukwo District, where homes and farms were engulfed late Monday night.

Rescue teams, supported by local residents, are still searching for survivors as persistent rainfall threatens further slides and slows emergency work.

Namoma Ivan James, the Deputy Resident District Commissioner for Bukwo, said three people died in Bukwo and six in Kween.

In Bukwo, the victims have been identified as Boaz Chellangat (11), Precious Chebet (3) and Shalom Chekwemoi (1), all children of Fred Chemusto, residents of Chekworbotin Village, Nyalit Parish in Chesower Sub-county.

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Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

Ariel Fernández, Andrea Rodriguez, John Myers Jr. and Evans Sanon
AP
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:10 UTC
Officials in Cuba reported collapsed houses, blocked mountain roads and roofs blown
Officials in Cuba reported collapsed houses, blocked mountain roads and roofs blown off buildings on Wednesday after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island, Haiti and Jamaica leaving dozens dead.
Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday.

A landslide blocked the main roads of Santa Cruz in Jamaica's St. Elizabeth parish, where the streets were reduced to mud pits. Residents swept water from homes as they tried to salvage belongings. Wind ripped off part of the roof at a high school that serves as a public shelter.

"I never see anything like this before in all my years living here," resident Jennifer Small said.

The extent of the damage from the deadly hurricane was unclear Wednesday as widespread power outages and dangerous conditions persisted in the region.

"It is too early for us to say definitively," said Dana Morris Dixon, Jamaica's education minister.

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Best of the Web: World's second-heaviest 24-hour rainfall total recorded of 1,739 millimeters (5 FEET, 8 inches) in Hue, Vietnam - at least 37 killed (UPDATED)


tuoitre.vn
Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:49 UTC
Severe flooding hits many areas in Hue City, central Vietnam, October 27, 2025.
© Nhat Linh / Tuoi TreSevere flooding hits many areas in Hue City, central Vietnam, October 27, 2025.
Many streets in the heart of the city were submerged under floodwaters.

Data from rain gauge system Vrain showed 1,320mm of rain at the summit of Bach Ma Mountain in Phu Loc Commune, while Khe Tre Commune recorded nearly 1,000mm.

Heavy downpours caused extensive flooding in many streets such as Le Quy Don, To Huu, and Nguyen Hue, where water levels reached 0.5 to one meter deep.

Cars were stranded underwater, and rescue teams used boats to navigate the inundated streets such as Dong Da and Le Quy Don.

"The water rose so fast this morning that many people were caught off guard," said Le Van Cuong, a student at the Hue University of Sciences.

"Friends of mine had to wade through the water to buy instant noodles and dry bread because the forecast said the flooding could last several more days."


Comment: Update October 29

The VnExpress reports:
Rainfall at Bach Ma peak in Hue has reached a staggering 1,739 millimeters in 24 hours, the highest ever recorded in Vietnam and the second-largest daily total in the world, behind only a 1966 record in the Indian Ocean.

Bach Ma peak recorded the historic rainfall from 7 p.m. on Oct. 26 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 27. According to data from the World Meteorological Organization, this 24-hour rainfall was surpassed only by 1,825 mm measured at a French weather station in the Indian Ocean in January 1966.
The Independent reports:
Central Vietnam has been inundated by devastating floodwaters this week, following record-breaking rains that have claimed at least 10 lives and left five people missing, officials confirmed.

Cities, farmland, and transport networks bore the brunt of the onslaught.

The coastal city of Danang, a vital future growth engine for Vietnam, reported six fatalities and four missing individuals.

Nineteen others were injured, with homes, crops, and thousands of livestock washed away, prompting heightened concern over the damage.
Update November 3

Xinhua reports:
The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Vietnam's central region has risen to 37, with five people missing and 78 others injured, the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority reported Monday.

More than 12,600 houses remain inundated, while 103 others were destroyed or swept away, and 451 were damaged, according to the report.

Floods have also submerged nearly 7,900 hectares of crops, killed over 64,000 livestock and poultry, and caused severe damage to irrigation systems and riverbanks.


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Jamaicans wake to devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two

Nick Davis, Rachel Hagan
BBC
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:20 UTC
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© Getty
The normal soundtrack that accompanies Jamaican life is silent this morning as many have woken to no electricity.

About three-quarters of the island is without power and many parts of its western side are under water, with homes destroyed by strong winds after Hurricane Melissa tore across the island with catastrophic force.

As wind and rain lashed through the night, one local official said the destruction resembled "the scene of an apocalypse movie."

With communications crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown. Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared the island a "disaster area" late Tuesday, warning of "devastating impacts" and "significant damage" to hospitals, homes and businesses.

Although no deaths have yet been confirmed, Montego Bay's mayor Richard Vernon told the BBC his first task at daybreak would be "to check if everybody is alive."

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