Torrential rain streaming in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don caused havoc on the streets, killing one person and leaving about a dozen others injured. Hundreds of cars and businesses were destroyed in the deluge.
"One person, a 14-year-old girl, died after being dragged underneath a car by the torrent," TASS cited an official as saying.
Four people out of the 11 who sought medical attention remain in hospital in a satisfactory condition, the official said. Among them is a 16-year-old who was struck by a broken high-voltage electricity cable.
The thunderstorm in Rostov-on-Don started on Thursday evening, accompanied by storm winds of up to 90kph.
The downpour flooded the streets of Rostov-on-Don, a city of well over a million inhabitants.
As you read this article, the state of California is being ravaged by gigantic wildfires that are raging wildly out of control, and West Virginia is dealing with a "500 year flood". Since last September, the U.S. has been hit by a series of 11 historic floods. Never before in American history have we seen so many major floods within such a compressed space of time.
And just as the Shemitah year ended last September, massive wildfires began erupting all over the country. Thanks to that unprecedented outbreak of large fires, 2015 ended up being the worst year for wildfires in all of U.S. history. And since 2016 began, things have continued to get worse. As far as the total number of acres burned is concerned, we are more than a million acres ahead of the pace that was set last year. So why in the world is all of this happening?
The wildfires that are ripping through many parts of California right now are making headlines all over the world. In particular, the extremely quick moving Erskine fire in Kern County has already destroyed more than 200 homes and authorities are picking through the rubble hoping that they won't discover too many bodies...
The charred remains of two people were found inside a burned down mobile home which went up in flames as the fire tore through the South Lake area of Sierra Nevada, officials said.
The bodies were so horrifically burned that a forensic investigation is required to determine whether they belonged to a human or animal, said Kern County Sheriff spokesman Ray Pruitt.
Officials warned that more residents may be forced to flee the advancing flames as the fire has already scorched more than 30,000 acres.
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A state of emergency has been declared in 44 of 55 counties in West Virginia in the wake of storms and floods that hit the state on Thursday night. Nearly two dozen people have died, while hundreds were trapped inside a shopping mall cut off by the flooding.
The death toll from the floods has climbed to 23, a spokesperson for West Virginia's Homeland Security and Emergency Management said Friday night, noting that the hardest hit area is in Greenbrier County in the southeastern part of the state, where at least 15 people have died.
About 500 people became stranded inside a shopping mall in the town of Elkview, some 12 miles (19km) from the state's capital, Charleston, on Thursday. Employees and customers became trapped inside Crossings Mall after a bridge that connected the center to a main road collapsed.
Richard Davies Floodlist Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:00 UTC
Severe flooding in parts of West Virginia has prompted Governor Early Ray Tomblin to declare a state of emergency for 44 counties in the state. Local media are reporting that 2 people have died in the floods and a young child is missing. The flooding has damaged buildings, roads and bridges. Evacuations have been carried out in some areas, and emergency service have carried out dozens of flood rescues.
Initially the worst affected counties were Greenbrier and Nicholas, where Governor Tomblin declared the state of emergency on 23 June. A statement from the Governor's office said that the "severe storm event has caused rockslides, mudslides, and flooding and has damaged home, businesses, roads and bridges. Certain portions of Nichols and Greenbrier have been rendered inaccessible because of public infrastructure damage."
Later the state of emergency was expanded to include 44 counties in total. All but the counties in the Northern and Eastern Panhandles in West Virginia have been severely affected and are now under a state of emergency.
Firefighters used rescue boats to free Londoners trapped in their homes as torrential rain brought chaos to the Tube, road and rail network.
London Fire Brigade attended more than 400 incidents after receiving 550 calls - almost two days' worth of 999 calls - in a couple of hours as extraordinary thunderstorms deluged the capital overnight.
Emergency services asked people only to dial 999 if life was at risk.
Fire crews helped residents to get to work or to polling stations to vote in the EU referendum after 60 homes in Romford were flooded when the River Rom burst its banks.
Richard Davies Floodlist Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:12 UTC
A factory worker in Bang Pu Industrial Estate in Samut Prakarn province is ferried to safety in a large bucket yesterday after the area is inundated in up to 60 centimetres of water.
Wide areas of Bangkok, Thailand, were flooded on 21 June after a period of heavy rain across the city.
The flooding brought traffic to a standstill forced some schools and businesses to close. Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) Director-General Chatchai Promlert said that heavy rains during the evening of 20 June caused flooding in 36 areas of Bangkok, leaving streets under 60cm of water in some areas.
Bangkok Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said that although the rain was short lived, the rainfall was as much as 200 mm and the highest for over 25 years.
Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) had reported that a low pressure area over northern Vietnam and Cambodia would result in heavy rainfall in Thailand's northeastern, central and southern regions on 21 June 2016.
Millions affected and 20 missing as violent weather collapses homes - and authorities warn more flooding likely to hit Yangtze area later this month
Floods and landslides killed more than 20 people - and displaced 197,000 - in southern China over the weekend.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Monday that 3.7 million people in seven provinces, including Hubei and Sichuan, and Chongqing municipality, had been affected. Twenty people were missing.
Some victims died when their homes collapsed in the storms.
The department of civil affairs in Anhui said three elderly farmers were killed in the province.
They included a husband and wife in Susong county whose house collapsed. About 70cm of rain fell in some areas of the province in two days.
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have left at least 2 people dead and several missing in Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan.
One man died in a landslides in Kamiamakusa on Monday 20 June. The second victim drowned in flood water in Kosa. Some local news reports say that the number of fatalities has since increased to at least five. As of early 21 June, two people were missing after a landslides buried their home in Kumamoto. A third missing person is thought to have been buried in a landslides in Uto.
Evacuation orders have been issued by disaster management authorities for several areas in Kumamoto.
The area was recently battered by major earthquakes that struck in April this year, killing at least 49 people and injuring about 3,000.
The death toll from landslides and flooding in Indonesia rose to 47 on Monday, an official said, after hundreds of homes were engulfed by surging torrents of mud and rock.
Rescuers used excavators and their bare hands to search through wrecked houses and earth for 15 villagers still missing after days of rain triggered the landslips and flash floods on mountainous Java island at the weekend.
The natural disasters happened across densely populated Central Java province, with fast-moving walls of mud, rock and water engulfing buildings as they raced down hillsides and drivers were swept off roads.
Villagers were trapped on their rooftops and watched helplessly as the rising floodwaters submerged their homes and cars.
Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said 47 people were confirmed dead and 15 were missing. Hundreds of homes were badly damaged, with some completely flattened.
"People should be prepared as there is still a high potential for flooding and landslides," he warned.
At least 24 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in central Java and many others remained missing Sunday, an Indonesian official said.
Dozens of houses were buried in the landslides and thousands of homes were inundated by floods in 16 districts and towns over the weekend.
The dead included two 10-year-olds and a pregnant woman.
The spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said that 26 villagers were missing in the worst-hit district of Purworejo, where 11 people died.
He said seven people were killed in Kebumen district and six in Banjarnegara district.
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