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Heavy rains led to flooding of village.
© The Statesman/ANNIndian National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams carrying out rescue operations in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri.
A district official said that the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district developed a breach early today following heavy rain, our New Delhi correspondent reports.
A local police officer said six bodies have been recovered so far while 19 people are still missing.
The dam breach caused a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages and a of dozen houses have been swept away by gushing waters.
© GettyMany parts of Mumbai are heavily flooded
The victims died when a wall collapsed on them in the early hours of Tuesday after persistent rainfall for two days.
Authorities have declared a public holiday on Tuesday and have requested people to stay indoors.
Met department officials have confirmed that this is the heaviest rainfall in the city for a decade.
© Kyle and Tori KlineA picture is worth a thousand words: 2018 and 2019 photos of corn crops in Indiana.
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© KYODOHouses are seen buried in mud in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Monday after heavy rain triggered landslides.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has warned of heavy rain in eastern Japan on July 1 and in western Japan through July 4, with a possibility of localized downpours and thunderstorms. The agency is calling for people to be on their guard against landslides, flooding in low-lying areas, lightning and other extreme weather.
By 9 a.m., evacuation advisories were in place for more than 1.21 million people in 558,715 households in 21 municipalities in the three southwestern Japan prefectures of Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Kumamoto. The advisory for the city of Kagoshima covered almost the entire municipality.
In the town of Honjo in Kagoshima Prefecture, a hillside gave way, resulting in a landslide that hit the home of a 78-year-old woman. She was rescued by her husband and neighbors and admitted to hospital, but later died.
© SputnikView on flooded village in Irkutsk region, Russia, June 28, 2019.
"According to the latest data, seven people fell victim to the flood. Nine are missing, a child is among them," TASS news agency reported on Monday, quoting a source at the regional emergency services. Some 153 more people have been injured and are currently in hospital, with over 600 more seeking medical help.
Severe flooding has been caused by torrential rains that hit the region last week. Water levels of some rivers quickly rose to more than two meters. A state of emergency was declared with about 3,300 homes in 55 settlements flooded and nearly 10 thousand people affected so far, according to Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Up to 30,000 people were cut off from electricity supplies. The floodwater also damaged roads and limited traffic on part of the federal highway.
© Kyle and Tori KlineA picture is worth a thousand words: 2018 and 2019 photos of corn crops in Indiana.
Torrential rains have been hammering the heartland of America for months, and at this point vast stretches of farmland in the middle of the country are nothing but mud. As a result of the endless rain and unprecedented flooding that we have witnessed, millions of acres of farmland will have nothing planted on them at all in 2019, and that is a major national crisis. But most farmers were able to get seeds planted in the deplorable conditions, and now they are desperately hoping that something will actually grow. Unfortunately, on farm after farm what is coming out of the ground looks absolutely terrible. Even if we get ideal weather conditions for the rest of the summer, there is no way that many of these fields will be ready before the first hard frost arrives. As you will see below, the truth is that we are potentially facing the most widespread crop failures in all of U.S. history.
This is the biggest news story in America so far this year, and the mainstream media is finally starting to understand the gravity of what we are facing. Just consider the following quote from a recent Quartz article...
The stories across the Midwest are wrenching. Scrolling through the #NoPlant19 hashtag turns up dozens of posts about farmers staring out at soggy fields or farm equipment foundering in deep mud. It's likely many will see their harvests devastated this year, and global grain prices could spike.But of course a picture is worth a thousand words, and so let me share a before and after photo that a farming couple in Indiana named Kyle and Tori Kline recently shared on Facebook...
© AP Photo/Rajanish KakadeA Municipal officer stands guard to warn pedestrians of an open manhole on a waterlogged street following rainfall in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 28, 2019. India receives its monsoon rains from June to October.
The wall dividing the car parking area of a multi-story residential apartment building collapsed in Pune, a city in Maharashtra state, fire official J. Gaekwad said.
Rescuers pulled out alive three people from the rubble and they were hospitalized, he said.
The wall collapsed as the city received 7.3 centimeters (2.8 inches) of rain on Friday, the second-highest rainfall for the month of June in the past nine years, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
Torrential overnight rain in southeast Minnesota led to flash flooding that swept cattle into rushing water Friday morning.
Video of the shocking incident was captured by Donny Ehlenfeldt, who witnessed the cattle being swept down the South Branch Middle Fork Zumbro River, which runs through Oxbow Park in Olmsted County.
© Press Office of Irkutsk Region Branch of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief/TASS
Rescuers have evacuated 490 people from the town of Tulun in the Irkutsk region after massive floods hit the area, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's regional department told TASS on Saturday.
"A total of 490 people, including 117 children, were evacuated. A total of 290 people, including 67 children, were accommodated at places of temporary stay," the department said.
According to latest reports, the water rose by 13 meters in the region, surpassing the critical mark of seven meters.
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