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Landslides after heavy rain in Uttarakhand India kill 15, several missing


China Daily
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:11 UTC
A house near the river lies in ruins after a downpour triggered a cloudburst and landslides, at Sahastradhara, in Dehradun on Tuesday.
A house near the river lies in ruins after a downpour triggered a cloudburst and landslides, at Sahastradhara, in Dehradun on Tuesday.
Landslides and heavy rain in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, with 16 missing, Indian media reported on Wednesday.

Visuals showed muddy water gushing through the town of Sahastradhara in the district of Dehradun on Tuesday, leaving destroyed shops, roads and houses, as people cowered behind walls.

"My shop was washed away," an unidentified resident told the ANI news agency, adding that it was one of seven shops swept away in a market. "There is no sign of them."

On Tuesday, officials retrieved 13 bodies from Dehradun and one each from the districts of Pithoragarh and Nainital, the Indian Express newspaper said.


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Landslides in Malaysia's Sabah cut power to almost 250,000 people, at least 13 dead (UPDATE)

Joseph Sipalan
South China Morning Post
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:45 UTC
Volunteers deliver food and water to stranded Penampang residents after landslides and heavy rain cut off roads.
Volunteers deliver food and water to stranded Penampang residents after landslides and heavy rain cut off roads.
Nearly a quarter of a million people were left without electricity over the weekend in Malaysia's Sabah state after torrential rain triggered landslides that killed at least one person and took out a transmission tower that cut power across a large area.

Footage shared widely on social media showed the tower leaning precariously after it was hit by a landslide in the district of Penampang on the state's west coast on Saturday evening.

The incident cut power supply to six districts in Sabah's east coast, including the town of Sandakan, over 300km (186 miles) away.

State power company Sabah Electricity said power had been gradually restored in some parts of the affected areas on Sunday, but other parts of the state on Malaysia in northern Borneo remained without energy on Monday.

Malaysia has been struggling to deal with extreme weather events in recent years, as the climate crisis worsens droughts and rains, decimating crops and damaging homes and public infrastructure.


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Landslide tragedy claims seven lives in Kolombong, Sabah

The final two victims of a deadly landslide in Kampung Cenderakasih, Kolombong, were found this afternoon, bringing the death toll to seven, including four children.

The landslide, which struck around 9.15am today, buried a house and killed seven people.

Kota Kinabalu police chief Assistant Commissioner Kasim Muda said the final two victims, a 24-year-old woman and her nine-year-old child, were located in the afternoon, following an earlier report by the Sabah Fire and Rescue Department that five bodies had been recovered.

The victims comprised three boys and one girl, aged between two and nine, along with two women and one man aged between 25 and 50.
Update September 16

News.az reports:
At least 13 people, among them seven children, have lost their lives in a series of landslides across Sabah, Malaysia, as relentless heavy rains lash the state's western coast.

The devastating storms are the deadliest to strike the region in nearly three decades, leaving communities reeling and emergency services struggling to respond, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

Nearly 90 incidents of landslides, flash flooding and road collapses have been reported over the past week, according to state authorities, as residents brace for worse to come after the Malaysian Meteorological Department issued a fresh storm warning on Tuesday.

The death toll is the highest from a single weather event in Sabah since the 1996 floods that killed over 200 people and swept away dozens of houses along the riverbanks in the state's Keningau district, when tropical storm Greg struck.


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Landslide after days of continuous rain kills 6 in Agusan del Sur, Philippines

Chris V. Panganiban
mindanews.com
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:06 UTC
A bridge in the remote Mahayahay village in San Luis, Agusan del Sur is nearly covered by debris in this photo from a netizen’s Facebook post.
A bridge in the remote Mahayahay village in San Luis, Agusan del Sur is nearly covered by debris in this photo from a netizen’s Facebook post.
Rescuers have recovered two bodies after a landslide buried six people near a girder bridge at Kilometer 31 in the remote village of Mahayahay, San Luis town on Sunday evening, September 14.

Barangay chairperson Sergio Manlomate told radio reporter Ranelo "Boy" Abad of government-run DXGP 89.7 FM that the landslide was triggered after a driver of a "Saddam" truck tried to pull out a fallen tree blocking the road to the bridge, inadvertently loosening massive rocks and mud from the mountainside.

A "Saddam" truck is a colloquial term for an old 6 x 6 military truck used to carry workers of logging companies that operated in the 1980s in the hinterlands of San Luis.

A joint retrieval team composed of local police, Army soldiers, and personnel from the Municipal isaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) recovered the remains of a boy identified as John Paul Abunda, and Junard Gonzales, a truck driver.

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Sudden severe hailstorm hits Beijing, China


bastillepost.com
Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:39 UTC
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A sudden hailstorm caught people off guard in Beijing on Saturday evening.

Heavy rain and lightning were also reported across multiple districts, with Damozhuang Village in Mentougou District recording the highest precipitation at 31.1 millimeters.

The municipal government has issued a yellow alert for lightning, and several districts such as Dongcheng, Xicheng, Haidian, and Chaoyang have issued yellow alerts for hailstorms.

Weather authorities forecast that a scattered thunderstorm will move across the capital from west to east, with brief downpours and high winds expected in some areas.

China uses a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe level, followed by orange, yellow, and blue.

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Canada: Southern Manitoba communities flooded by as much as 103 mm (4 inches) of rain in just 4 hours

Darren Bernhardt
CBC News
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:38 UTC
People walk near stranded cars at the flooded intersection of McKenzie Avenue and Brandt Street in Steinbach around 1 a.m. Friday.
© Christopher Gareau/CBCPeople walk near stranded cars at the flooded intersection of McKenzie Avenue and Brandt Street in Steinbach around 1 a.m. Friday.
Streets, basements and businesses were flooded after a torrential rainstorm hammered the southern Manitoba city of Steinbach on Thursday night.

Vehicles were left stranded in sudden lakes as the city was hit with 103 millimetres of rain in just four hours and 135 mm by the time it stopped, according to Environment Canada.

That's the equivalent of two months' worth of rain for that city, 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg.

La Broquerie (10 km east of Steinbach) and Niverville (20 km south of Winnipeg) also reported well over 100 mm.

"It was pouring like you can't believe," said Steinbach Coun. Bill Hiebert. "I had a call at 3 a.m. from a resident saying he had three feet of water in his basement."

It was worse for the Steinbach and Area Animal Rescue building, which took in almost two metres of water, vice-president Graham Pollock said.

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Heavy rains, flooding shuts schools, disrupts transport in Henan, China - 6.4 inches of rainfall in 24 hours

huaxia
Xinhua
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:36 UTC
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Schools in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou were closed on Thursday as heavy rains swept across Henan Province, prompting red alerts and transport disruptions, local authorities said.

Non-boarding primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, suspended classes on Thursday after the city launched its flood control emergency response. Residents were advised to avoid non-essential travel.

As of Thursday morning, rains and waterlogging had forced dozens of highway toll stations in Henan to close or impose vehicle restrictions, transport authorities said.

From Wednesday morning to Thursday morning, heavy rains swept much of Henan -- with downpours in parts of Xuchang, Zhoukou, Luohe and Nanyang. A total of 47 rainstorm and thunderstorm warnings were in effect, including red alerts in the city of Xuchang and Taikang and Fugou counties.

Xuchang recorded 163.8 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. Thursday, the highest in the country, according to the National Meteorological Center.

Provincial transport authorities have dispatched more than 10,000 personnel for flood control and rescue efforts.

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Landslide triggered by heavy rains kills 4 in West Sikkim, India


thelogicalindian.com
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:30 UTC
Rescue operation underway after incessant rain triggered a landslide in the Upper Rimbi area around midnight, in Gyalshing, Sikkim, on Friday.
© PTIRescue operation underway after incessant rain triggered a landslide in the Upper Rimbi area around midnight, in Gyalshing, Sikkim, on Friday.
A massive landslide triggered by heavy overnight rains struck Upper Rimbi in Yangthang Constituency, West Sikkim, late Thursday night, resulting in the deaths of four people and leaving three others missing. Rescue operations involving police, border security forces, disaster response teams, and local villagers are ongoing under challenging weather and terrain conditions.

Two injured women were rescued; one later died in hospital while the other remains critical. The state government has urged residents in vulnerable areas to stay alert as rainfall continues and has assured full support for victims and rescue measures.

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Autumn rain front brings downpours to Tokyo, other parts of Japan - 3.5 inches of rain in just an hour


NHK
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:34 UTC
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Atmospheric conditions have become extremely unstable in wide areas due mainly to an autumn rain front, bringing heavy rain to western Japan and the Kanto-Koshin region. Downpours also fell in Tokyo.

The Meteorological Agency says the unstable conditions were caused by warm, moist air flowing into the front. On Thursday afternoon, heavy rain hit western Japan and the Kanto-Koshin region, with lightning strikes observed in Tokyo and other areas.

In the hour until 2:30 p.m., 89 millimeters of rain fell in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.

In the hour until 2 p.m., a rain gauge set up by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Hinohara Village recorded 41 millimeters, and another in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, recorded 34 millimeters.

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Heavy rains batter Italy, triggering floods, travel disruptions


Daily Finland
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:01 UTC
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Heavy rainfall has swept across Italy in the past 24 hours, triggering floods, landslides and transport disruptions, with northern and central regions among the worst affected, reported Xinhua.

The severe weather followed a 24-hour nationwide warning issued by the Italian Civil Protection Department for thunderstorms, hail and strong winds. The agency also placed five regions under an orange alert, the second-highest level for hydrogeological risk. The alert covered parts of Lombardy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Tuscany, as well as the entire regions of Lazio and Umbria. Southern areas, including Palermo and Trapani in Sicily, faced lower risk levels but remained on alert for flooding and related hazards.

On Elba Island off the coast of Tuscany, a violent thunderstorm inundated the main town of Portoferraio on Tuesday, temporarily isolating around 200 residents, local authorities said. Although floodwaters began to recede late Wednesday, Mayor Tiziano Nocentini urged residents to stay indoors and warned of possible new storms overnight. He noted that it was the fourth extreme weather event to hit the island in less than six months.

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At least 19 killed in flash floods in Indonesia, most on island of Bali - 15 inches of rain falling in just 24 hours


Al Jazeera
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:09 UTC
Civilians and military personnel clean up a street after a deadly flood hit Denpasar, capital city of Bali, September 10, 2025
© Made Nagi/EPACivilians and military personnel clean up a street after a deadly flood hit Denpasar, capital city of Bali, September 10, 2025
Flash floods that struck two provinces in Indonesia this week have killed at least 19 people, according to disaster mitigation officials, with operations under way to search for the missing.

Torrential rains beginning on Monday caused flooding and landslides on the tourist island of Bali and in East Nusa Tenggara province.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto ordered his aides to accelerate the handling of the aftermath of the deadly flooding, locate the missing and deliver basic needs to displaced residents, Antara state news agency reported on Thursday.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency, BNPB, reported that 400 to 600 personnel from various institutions had been deployed to search for the missing and clear debris.

Rain caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through nine cities and districts on Bali. Mud, rocks and trees tumbled onto mountainside hamlets and rising rivers submerged at least 120 neighbourhoods, resulting in a dozen landslides in several places, BNPB spokesperson Abdul Muhari said in a statement.


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