The Thai border in Mae Sot district in Tak is inundated after the northern province was pounded by downpours for days, with no signs of rains easing until the end of July.
The Tha Sai Luat Municipality warned residents living near the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on Thursday night to be on alert due to the rising water level of the Moei River.
The combination of continuous rain and rising tides triggered flooding in communities and commercial areas around 4am on Friday.
By 10am, the water level at the bridge was measured at 1.6 metres, the municipality added.
Landslides across Africa's second most populous country have claimed the lives of hundreds, with officials warning that the death toll could grow exponentially.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that heavy rainfall caused mountainsides to give way in a remote region known as the Gofa Zone in southern Ethiopia.
Photos from the scene show villagers working by hand to remove mud and debris in search for victims.
As of the latest report, 257 victims have been accounted for, but local authorities expect the death toll to approach 500.
Heavy rainfall led to the collapse of a reservoir dam in the Ural Mountains region of Chelyabinsk on Friday night, Russian authorities said, forcing residents of nearby villages to evacuate their homes.
A dam at the Kialimskoye reservoir, measuring around 500 meters long, was unable to hold back rising waters and broke, unleashing a flood torrent toward four villages in the Karabash district of the Chelyabinsk region.
A video shared on social media showed the dam being washed away by a powerful current of water, which poured into the surrounding area. Another video, filmed by someone who sought safety on the roof of a building, showed fast-flowing water engulfing homes, cars and trees.
Comment: More footage here from RT. And the weather forecast is for a lot more rain to come...
Flash floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Prapiroon have killed at least 10 people and left 9 missing this week in northern Vietnam, the government's disaster management agency said on Friday.
The storm that made landfall in Quang Ninh on Tuesday has brought torrential rains to most of the country's north over the past few days, with rainfall exceeding 300 mm (11.8 inches) in several parts, according to the agency.
The deaths include seven in Son La province, two in Dien Bien province and one in the capital Hanoi, according to the agency.
Photos on state media showed flood waters had risen to the roofs of hundreds of houses in Dien Bien Bien province and washed away or buried roads in the area.
Floods and landslides have also inundated nearly 30,000 hectares of rice and cash crops and killed nearly 20,000 farmed cattle and poultry, the agency said.
Rains have subsided in northern Vietnam, according to the national weather agency, which forecasts a new heatwave in the area over the next days.
Waves crash on the coast of Sansha town as Typhoon Gaemi approaches, in Ningde, Fujian province, China July 25, 2024.
Typhoon Gaemi pummelled towns on China's coastal Fujian province on Friday with heavy rains and strong winds as the most powerful storm to hit the country this year began its widely watched trek into the populous interior.
The storm has affected almost 630,000 people in China's Fujian so far, with almost half of them having to be relocated, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier this week, it killed dozens of people as it swept through Taiwan and worsened seasonal rains in the Philippines.
Gaemi was packing winds of up to 100.8 kph (62.6 mph) near its centre, easing slightly from 118.8 kph logged on Thursday night when it landed in the Fujian city of Putian.
While Gaemi has been downgraded to a tropical storm because of slower wind speeds, its vast cloud-bands remain a significant flood risk, particularly to rivers in central China already elevated due to summer rains.
Hours ahead of the typhoon's arrival, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party's politburo, helmed by President Xi Jinping, held a special meeting on flood control and urged cadres across the country to protect lives.
Incessant rains in Pune, Maharashtra, have caused severe flooding, resulting in the deaths of four people and the evacuation of residents from low-lying areas.
The India Meteorological Department issued a 'red alert' for the district, prompting school closures. Areas like Sinhagad Road, Bavdhan, Baner, and Deccan Gymkhana faced significant inundation.
Water release from Khadakwasla dam increased flooding along the Mutha river. Three men were electrocuted in Deccan, and a landslide in Mulshi killed one person and injured another.
Disaster management and NDRF teams are deployed, and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has instructed authorities to aid affected citizens.
Section of NH-3 in Himachal Pradesh submerged under water due to the flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in Manali.
A stretch of the National Highway-3 was closed for vehicular traffic following a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in Himachal's Kullu district, police said on Thursday.
No casualty has so far been reported in the incident that occurred late Wednesday, they said.
According to officials, the stretch between Dhundi and Palchan Bridge on NH-3, also known as Leh-Manali Road, was affected due to the cloudburst at Anjani Mahadev nullah in the Manali area.
Vehicles headed to Manali from Lahaul and Spiti via the north portal of the Atal Tunnel have been diverted towards Rohtang, the Lahaul and Spiti police said in an advisory on Thursday.
It also asked the commuters to travel only if necessary, drive cautiously, and stay aware of the possible danger en route.
Ten migrants died due to the rise of a river in an isolated area of Panama near the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia, the border police (Senafront) reported on Wednesday. "In the river tributaries near the community of Carreto [in the indigenous region of Guna Yala], 10 bodies of migrants who drowned as a result of a flash flood (river rise) were observed," Senafront said in a statement.
"Transnational organized crime, through local collaborators in these coastal Caribbean communities, insists on using unauthorized routes, putting these people's lives at serious risk," the statement added. The note does not specify if the deceased had crossed the Darién jungle—turned into a corridor for migrants trying to reach the United States—or if they arrived by boat. It also does not specify the nationalities of the victims.
Heavy rain has continued to lash northeastern Japan and has triggered river flooding and landslides, prompting the weather agency to issue downpour warnings at the highest level in parts of Yamagata Prefecture on Thursday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the heavy rain emergency warnings for two municipalities in the northeastern prefecture -- Sakata and Yuza -- shortly after 1 p.m., urging residents to take immediate action to protect lives.
More than 100 millimeters of rain fell in the two municipalities and their vicinities during an hour through 9:00 a.m., according to the agency.
Typhoon "Carina" and the southwest monsoon have caused flooding in Ilocos Norte, prompting evacuations and power shutdown preparations.
Ilocos Sur evacuated two families due to landslides while Nueva Ecija remains on alert amid ongoing rains.
Continuous rains brought by Typhoon Carina and the southwest monsoon caused a river in Barangay Cataban, Laoag City to overflow, flooding two sitios for about two hours before the waters subsided.
The national highway in Bacarra was also flooded as water from nearby rice fields overflowed, but the water quickly receded.
"Gawa ng tuloy-tuloy na ulan kaya umapaw ang baha sa kalsada," Belinda Calulot, a resident, said.
All roads and bridges in Ilocos Norte remain passable despite the heavy rains.
Typhoon Carina, internationally known as Gaemi, did not make landfall here in the Philippines but enhanced its seasonal monsoon rains that set off at least a dozen landslides and floods over five days.
As it headed for Taiwan on Wednesday, at least 12 people had been killed and 600,000 more displaced, including 35,000 who went to emergency shelters, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).
Metro Manila — also known as the National Capital Region — was placed under a state of calamity in the afternoon.
A landslide buried a rural shanty Tuesday in the mountainside town of Agoncillo in Batangas province, and the bodies of a pregnant woman and three children, aged 9 to 15, were dug out Wednesday morning. A rice porridge vendor was hit by a falling tree in another Batangas town Tuesday night, raising the toll in the country to 13 dead.
"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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