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Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that at least five people were killed in the floods in Lorestan province on Sunday, 31 March, 2019. In a 24 hour period to 01 April, 2019, Khorramabad, capital of Lorestan Province, recorded 106.9 mm of rain and Hamedan in Hamadan Province, recorded 98.6 mm.
The flooding has caused damage to infrastructure, homes, bridges and roads in Lorestan province, where the areas of Nurabad in Delfan county and Dorud, Dorud County, have been hardest hit.
More than 13,000 people have been affected by floods, and at least 51 have died this wet season.
Authorities mobilized rescue teams to evacuate residents and rescue animals.
Lima has also declared a state of emergency in Chanchamayo and surrounding areas.
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The AP reported that the National Ground Water Association, a trade group, said there are 1.1 million private wells in 300 flooded counties across 10 states in the Midwest.
Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to the AP.
Flooding creates the possibility that water from the flood will get into the wells and contaminate the water.
© ReutersPeople salvage items from a house destroyed by flood in Enjil district of Herat province, Afghanistan March 29, 2019.
Two days of flooding that started on Thursday killed 12 people in Jawzjan and two in Badghis, provinces that border Turkmenistan, said Hasibullah Shir Khani, a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority.
Two others were killed in Herat and another in Sar-e Pul province, he said.
More than 500 houses were destroyed.
© Humeyra PamukPaddocks at Washington County Fairgrounds are shown underwater due to flooding in Arlington, Nebraska, U.S., March 21, 2019.
Farms from the Dakotas to Missouri and beyond have been under water for a week or more, possibly impeding planting and damaging soil. The floods, which came just weeks before planting season starts in the Midwest, will likely reduce corn, wheat and soy production this year.
"There's thousands of acres that won't be able to be planted," Ryan Sonderup, 36, of Fullerton, Nebraska, who has been farming for 18 years, said in a recent interview.
"If we had straight sunshine now until May and June, maybe it can be done, but I don't see how that soil gets back with expected rainfall."
© Government of ParaguayFloods in Paraguay, March 2019.
Around 70,000 people are currently affected by floods in several departments of Paraguay. Flooding and landslides in Peru have damaged or destroyed dozens of homes and prompted evacuations in the regions of Ancash, Amazonas and Cusco.
In Ecuador, flooding in Los Ríos Province has prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency in several cantons, while in Bolivia, over 2,000 hectares of crops and 109 homes have been destroyed by flooding from the overflowing Parapetí River in Santa Cruz Department.
The hostile weather phenomenon ripped through Manicaland's south eastern districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge leaving a trail of death and destruction as well as overturning livelihoods overnight.
According to vendors in Bulawayo, Chimanimani and Chipinge are the major suppliers of fruits and vegetables to the country's second largest city. The infrastructural destruction by the cyclone has left many a supplier and vendor in a lurch.
Fruits and vegetables such as bananas, onions, avocados and pineapples have run out in Bulawayo and surrounding towns.
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Comment: South America - Thousands affected by floods and landslides in Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia