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Yemen Meteorological Services reported that Aden saw 77mm of rain on 08 June, with most of that total falling in a 3 hour period. Satellite images showed rainfall rates of up to 35mm per hour at 14:00 UTC on 08 June in southern and western areas of the country. Further severe weather warnings have been issued.
Houses and roads in Aden were submerged. In rural areas, runoff swept down hillsides, turning wadis into raging rivers and swamping crops and roads.
The video, filmed in Shiyan City in Hubei Province on June 5, shows floodwater rushing through the playground and washing the parked cars away.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
At least six people died in the floods while 25 more were killed by lightning according to Pirhossein Kolivand, head of the Iran Emergency Medical Service, as cited in reports.
© Antara/Sahrul Manda TikupadangPeople are evacuated from the Bung Permai residential complex in Makassar, South Sulawesi, during heavy flooding on Wednesday. Floodwaters from the overflowing Tello River reached depths of up to 1 meter.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesperson of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) revealed that 4,198 people in North Konawe regency in Southeast Sulawesi had been evacuated to safer areas.
"Asera district is the worst effected, with 13 of its villages inundated. Seventy two houses have been washed away, while thousands of other houses are inundated and hundreds of hectares of rice fields, corn fields and fish ponds have been damaged," Sutopo said in a press release made available to The Jakarta Post Monday.
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Tajikistan
Heavy rain from around 04 June to 07 June, 2019, caused mudslides and flooding in two regions of Tajikistan.
Two people died and one building was destroyed after a mudslide in Panjakent district in Sughd province.
Also in Sughd, flooding also damaged about 11 homes in the city of Konibodom.
Dozens of people were evacuated after about 80 homes were flooded in the village of Obi Shifo in Rudaki district on 05 June.
Heavy rainfall in the capital floods subway stations
Taking into account after the floods occurred in the metropolitan teams, launched an intensive work in the field. Mayor Yavaş expressed condolences to the families and relatives of the citizens who lost their lives due to floods.
© Peng Zhaozhi/XinhuaRescuers transfer children as the floods hit Xiangxing Township of Yongxin County in Ji'an City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sunday, June 9, 2019.
Xinhua said that 88,000 people have been evacuated in Jiangxi province following strong winds, hail and floods. More than 100 houses have been destroyed.
Authorities were distributing cotton quilts, bamboo mats and other relief supplies in the affected areas.
Emergency management officials told Xinhua that rains starting this past week had caused flooding in four cities including Nanning and Guilin. Heavy rain is forecast to continue until June 12.
Source: The Associated Press
© Daniel Acker/BloombergBarges sit along the shores of the Mississippi River
Railways and highways have been closed as well, keeping needed supplies from farmers and others, and limiting the crops sent to market. For Chris Boerm, who manages transportation for Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the nation's largest agricultural commodities dealers, the weather is an unyielding, ever-changing challenge.
He and his co-workers spend time carefully planning out the quickest way to get supplies to the people that need them, he said. But it's tough staying ahead of the drenching rain.
The Bangkok Flood Control Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reported a downpour for two hours at 2pm, including in inner districts of Phaya Thai and Dusit.
The flooded areas include roads in Chatuchak, Phaya Thai, Dusit, Din Daeng and Huai Khwang, the centre said.
Comment: Additionally, during mid-May: Storms, floods killed at least 24 people in 2 weeks across Iran - 20 by lightning strikes