Helicopter crews ferried down scores of tourists stranded atop of one of Switzerland's most popular mountain resorts on Friday after a mudslide a day earlier cut off road access until next week.
A road is blocked in Eisten, Switzerland , Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, after a landslide following severe weather.
Valais authorities said a downpour overnight Wednesday to Thursday caused several rivers in the Saas Valley to overflow their banks between the towns of Stalden and Saas-Balen. They said the road was likely to be closed until at least early next week. On Friday, public broadcaster RTS broadcast images of a long line of people, some dressed in hiking gear, waiting for the flights out.
A wave of violent rainstorms battered northern Italy on Thursday, flooding the financial hub of Milan and raising fears for the life of a man who was swept away on a tractor in the Piedmont region.
Footage by state TV RAI showed the wheel of the vehicle still visible inside the Orco creek, near Turin, where the tractor overturned in muddy water. Local rescuers said they were searching for the missing 58-year-old man.
Another river overflowed in Piedmont's Val di Susa, collapsing two bridges, blocking a provincial road and isolating about 50 people in two villages.
Two other northern regions, Lombardy and Veneto, were hit by widespread flooding, which caused damage and disruption in the city of Milan, where the Seveso and Lambro rivers overflowed.
A powerful super typhoon, Yagi, has slammed into China's popular tourist island of Hainan, bringing potentially catastrophic winds and torrential rain. The storm, the strongest to hit the island in a decade, made landfall in Wenchang city on Friday, after sweeping south of Hong Kong, causing widespread disruption and forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people in southern China.
The Hainan Provincial Meteorological Service reported that typhoon Yagi, which had earlier carried winds of up to 245 kph at its center, made landfall in Wenchang city at approximately 4:20 pm, news agency Associated Press stated. It is expected to move across other parts of the island before heading toward the Beibu Gulf.
National meteorological authorities in China stated that Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon ever recorded to hit the country. They predicted a second landfall in Xuwen County, Guangdong province, which is also China's most populous province, on Friday night.
A landslide triggered by a cloudburst on NH-29 has resulted in the death of six individuals, injuring many people. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of September 3rd to 4th, 2024 had completely cut off Dimapur-Kohima National Highway. As per the latest reports, all six bodies have been recovered. The details regarding the deceased and the full extent of the damage are expected to be provided in future updates.
The following individuals have been confirmed dead due to the landslide caused by the cloudburst: Khriesangulie (46) male, from Kijümetouma; Samir Dutta (43) male, from Pherima; Anhieü (57) female, from Kijümetouma; Daju (60) male, from Pherima; Sopon Biswas (32) male; and Vijay (28) male.
The injured reported at the time of filing this report are Rüzuozeii (36) Female, Suhel Akram (38), Anil Choudhary (27).
The body of a British woman has been found in Majorca, with a man still missing, after the pair were caught up in flash floods, police on the Spanish island say.
Rescue services had been looking for the two in the Torrente de Pareis canyon area since Monday.
Spain's Civil Guard say the two were hiking on a trail from the canyon to the Mediterranean Sea.
Ten other tourists trapped by the floods were rescued. Strong winds and heavy rain have been forecast in the area.
The Foreign Office has been approached for comment.
Zane Lilley The Connexion Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:33 UTC
Violent storms hit the south-east of France overnight, bringing rain and flooding to the previously serene Mediterranean coastline.
Rainfall of nearly 150 mm fell within 24 hours in parts of the Alpes-Maritimes department. Storms are set to continue in some areas of the far-south east today.
The storms hit across the southern coastline from Nice to Marseille, with the latter facing severe flooding.
It was the most powerful storm the city has experienced in at least three years.
Roads flooded in Marseille
Floods were particularly damaging to Marseille's transport network, with many roads inundated with water.
Pakistan's Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs) on Tuesday reported multiple casualties and injuries across the provinces following recent monsoon downpours that brought life to a standstill and caused both residential and infrastructural damage in urban and rural areas.
At least 10 people have succumbed to rain and flood-related incidents, while seven others sustained injuries in different parts of the country over the past few days.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), four people died and one was injured during the past 24 hours. Three of the deaths were caused by a landslide triggered by downpours in Upper Kohistan.
The fourth death was reported in Malakand, where, tragically, a child died due to a lightning strike.
Since July 1st, the northwestern province has reported 96 deaths and 133 injuries in numerous rain-related incidents.
Meanwhile, Sindh PDMA reported five deaths and two injuries in the past 24 hours in the province.
Tens of thousands in Australia's Tasmania state were left without power on Sunday (Sep 1) after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rain, triggering flood warnings.
Bill Hutchinson ABC News Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:07 UTC
Power was shut off to an additional 105 homes Monday night due to accelerating landslides in a Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood.
An ongoing crisis stemming from a widening landslide is threatening multimillion-dollar homes in the Southern California city of Rancho Palos Verdes.
The landslide grew worse over the weekend and prompted an evacuation warning for more than 100 homes in the oceanside community, officials said.
Residents in the growing landslide zone, which has spread about 680 acres over the past year the community has been dealing with the issue, were advised Sunday to leave the area after the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility company shut off power to 140 homes and said another 105 residents will lose electricity by Monday night.
"SCE has determined there is a public safety threat," the utility company said in a statement. "Electricity service will be discontinued in these zones effective Sunday, September 1 at 12 p.m. PST. DO NOT USE WATER OR PLUMBING AFTER THE POWER IS SHUT OFF -- THIS COULD RESULT IN A SEWER SPILL."
A storm set off landslides and unleashed pounding rains that flooded many northern Philippine areas overnight into Monday, leaving at least 14 people dead and prompting authorities to suspend school classes and government work in the densely populated capital region.
Tropical Storm Yagi slammed into Casiguran town in the northeastern province of Aurora Monday afternoon and gained strength with sustained winds of 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour and gusts of 105 kph (65 mph), according to the weather bureau.
The storm, locally called Enteng, gained speed and was moving northwestward at 20 kph (12 mph) toward the country's northernmost provinces. It was forecast to strengthen further, possibly becoming a typhoon, before blowing away toward southern China in the next two days, the weather bureau said.
At least 14 people died, mostly due to landslides and drownings, officials 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
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