Floods in southern Morocco have swept away a bus, leaving two passengers dead and 14 others missing, local authorities said Saturday.
Torrential rains earlier this month triggered floods that killed at least 18 people in areas of southern Morocco that straddle the Sahara desert.
Regional authorities in Tata province said heavy rainstorms late Friday led to "exceptional" floods that caused houses to collapse and swept away the bus.
A statement which gave the toll of dead and missing said 13 others were rescued.
The rare heavy rains come as the North African kingdom grapples with its worst drought in nearly 40 years, threatening its economically crucial agriculture sector.
Ten people died in Morocco at the weekend when floodwaters swept away a bus in the country's south, authorities said, raising the toll from the previously reported two dead.
Initially, the authorities said heavy rainstorms in Tata province late Friday had claimed two lives and left 14 people missing.
But since then the bodies of eight others had been found and another 13 were rescued, a health ministry official told the MAP state news agency.
Seven people were still missing, the same source said.
Earlier this month, torrential rains triggered floods that killed at least 18 people in areas of southern Morocco that straddle the Sahara desert.
Video from Tunisia shows cars being swept away by torrents of flood water in Sousse after heavy rain that caused damage to infrastructure and left several people with injuries.
The Bihar District Management Department said approximately 12 districts along the Ganga are experiencing flood-like conditions.
Flowing above the danger mark, a swollen river Ganga has swallowed up at least 10 houses in Bihar's Mamalkha village. Videos shot by residents of the area show three of the structures, including a two-storey one, sliding into the river and disintegrating before disappearing in a matter of seconds.
One of the videos shows the two-storey house, almost half of which has water lapping at it, slowly beginning to slide forward, almost like a boat leaving harbour, and then beginning to submerge. The front of the house disappears first and the rear follows with a loud sound and a violent shooting of spray. A boat can be seen in the background as this happens. The video is just about 30 seconds long, indicating the speed with which the structure vanished beneath the water.
Tan Hoa commune, Minh Hoa district, Quang Binh province has many places flooded up to 2m deep
As of late yesterday, in Ha Tinh, some rural roads in the Huong Khe and Vu Quang districts remained flooded. In Quang Binh, 1,150 households were still underwater, and 38 villages remained isolated.
Tropical Storm Soulik, or Typhoon No.4 has caused widespread flooding and landslides across several provinces in central Vietnam, leading to isolation in many areas.
Households have been submerged, with some locations requiring continued evacuation due to landslides along key roads.
As of late yesterday, rain had eased off in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, and Quang Tri. In Ha Tinh, some rural roads in Huong Khe and Vu Quang districts remained flooded. In Quang Binh, 1,150 households were underwater, and 38 villages remained isolated.
At least 40 school buildings in the area were also submerged in water, it added.
According to officials in Thanh Hoa province, more than 11,700 people had evacuated their homes and sought shelter in higher elevations in the past three days.
Stranded Londoners had to be rescued from their cars after heavy downpours sparked chaos across the capital's transport network and flooded streets.
Cars were left almost completely submerged as torrential rain quickly filled roads while water spilled out of the River Thames in west London on Monday.
Firefighters rescued people trapped in vehicles and visited homes and Underground stations which were flooded in areas such as Ruislip, Uxbridge, Wimbledon and Carshalton.
The London Fire Brigade said it took around 350 calls to flooding after a night of torrential rain, adding that it is continuing to respond to incidents.
Ruislip Manor station was forced to close on Monday while Ruislip station was forced to shut due to an electrical fault caused by flooding.
Raging flood waters swept through Cannes on Monday, pushing cars through the streets and leaving the French Riviera city known for its film festival on high alert.
There were no injuries as a result of the deluge in the French southeast region, where in 2015 at least 19 people died in flash floods and tens of thousands had power blackouts.
The situation was expected to return to normal by the end of the morning as the storm continued to move east, its town hall spokesperson said.
One person was killed and at least seven were missing on Sept 21, officials said, as "unprecedented" rains triggered floods and landslides in Japan's quake-hit region of Ishikawa, where authorities told tens of thousands to evacuate.
A dozen rivers in the region, on the west coast of central Japan that was hit by a large quake on New Year's Day, had burst their banks as at 11am (10am Singapore time), Land Ministry official Masaru Kojima said.
One person was killed, three people were missing and two people were seriously injured in Ishikawa, the region's government said in a statement, with two of the missing reportedly carried away by strong river currents.
Another four people, who were working for the land ministry to restore a road in Wajima, were also missing, ministry official Koji Yamamoto told AFP.
"About 60 people have been working to restore a road hit by the quake but a landslide occurred" on Sept 21 morning, he said.
"I asked (contractors) to check the safety of workers... but we are still unable to contact four people."
Heavy rains in southern regions left one dead and resulted in the flooding of farms, roads and houses and damage to cultural heritages, disaster authorities said on Sunday.
An 89-year-old man was found dead in a reservoir in Jangheung, South Jeolla Province, after falling into a drainage ditch near his home on Saturday, according to disaster safety officials as reported by Yonhap news agency.
The southwestern region was hit with torrential downpours, with Yeosu receiving up to 400 mm and Jangheung, Gangjin and Suncheon experiencing more than 300 mm of rainfall since Thursday.
More than 1,030 hectares of farmland in South Jeolla Province were damaged, while 300 tons of grain stored in Jangheung were flooded.
Severe flooding in Chad since July has claimed 503 lives and affected around 1.7 million since July, the United Nations said Saturday in its latest assessment of the disaster.
The floods have also destroyed 212,111 houses, flooded 357,832 hectares (885,000 acres) of fields and drowned 69,659 heads of cattle, said the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Chad.
All of the country's provinces had been hit, Chad's water and energy minister Marcelin Kanabe Passale told journalists Saturday morning, warning of more trouble to come.
"The waters of the Logone and Chari rivers have reached a critical height likely to cause obvious serious flooding in the coming days," Passale said.
"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."
~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe
- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
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AFP reports: About 2 weeks prior: At least 18 dead amid flash floods sweeping various regions in Morocco - a years' worth of rain in 2 days