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23 dead, dozens missing after rare heavy rains in the dry season caused landslide in Sulawesi, Indonesia (UPDATE)


Inquirer.net
Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:02 UTC
Rescue workers search for victims
© EPARescue workers search for victims of the landslide in Gorontalo province of Indonesia on 7 July 2024
At least 11 people are dead and 35 more are missing after heavy rains caused a landslide near an illegal gold mine on Indonesia's central island of Sulawesi, an official said Monday.

Unlicensed mines are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago, where abandoned sites attract locals who hunt for leftover gold ore without proper safety equipment.

The landslide hit a remote village in the Bone Bolango district of Gorontalo province late Saturday after spells of torrential rain, killing at least 11 and leaving more than two dozen still unaccounted for.

"Ten people died. Those who survived increased significantly from five to 20 people," said local search and rescue agency head Heriyanto, who goes by one name.

He added that another person who died had yet to be evacuated from the site of the disaster — and so was not included in the death toll — and that 35 people were still missing.


Comment: Update July 9

CBS reports:
Rescue workers dug through tons of mud and rubble on Tuesday as they searched for dozens of missing people after a landslide hit an unauthorized gold mining area on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 23 people.

More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote and hilly village of Bone Bolango when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps, said Heriyanto, head of the provincial Search and Rescue Office.

Rescuers recovered more bodies on Tuesday in the devastated hamlet where the gold mine is located.

According to his office, 66 villagers managed to escape from the landslide, 23 were pulled out alive by rescuers, including 18 with injuries, and 23 bodies were recovered, including three women and a 4-year-old boy. About 35 others were missing, it said.


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Race against time to combat dike breach in China's second-largest freshwater lake


Xinhua
Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:09 UTC
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Thousands of rescuers, including firefighters, hydrologists, volunteers and police, have joined hands to protect people's lives and property following a dike breach on Friday at Dongting Lake, China's second-largest freshwater lake in central China's Hunan Province.

At 5:48 p.m. on Friday, a Dongting Lake dike burst in Tuanzhou Township, Huarong County, administered by the city of Yueyang in Hunan Province, causing flooding in the area. The breach was initially about 10 meters wide but later expanded.

Following the immediate relocation of around 5,000 residents from the affected area, urgent measures have been taken to repair the breach. As of Sunday noon, 75 meters of the 226-meter breach in the dike had been sealed, according to the Yueyang flood control and drought relief headquarters.

Rescuers are also racing against time to reinforce a 14.3-kilometer-long embankment, viewed as the "second line of defense," located around 2 kilometers from the breached dike.

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Flooding and landslides kill at least 15 across Nepal in 24 hours

Bhadra Sharma
The New York Times
Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:27 UTC
The flooded Bagmati River in Nepal’s
© Niranjan Shrestha/Associated PressThe flooded Bagmati River in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday.
Landslides and floods set off by torrential rains have killed at least 15 people in Nepal in the last 24 hours, officials in the small Himalayan nation said on Sunday, expressing fear that with further heavy rains expected, that number could rise.

Eighteen people were also injured in the flooding over the past 24 hours, and two are missing, said Dan Bahadur Karki, a police spokesman. Dozens of people were evacuated to safety, including some pulled from the rubble of their damaged homes.

Officials said the landslides have hampered vehicle traffic in most parts of a country where the terrain already makes travel difficult. Highways were damaged, as were the serpentine roads that connect cities with mountain villages. Military and police forces were deployed to help clear the roads.

Koshi, Gandaki and Bagmati Provinces, in the east and center of the country, were among the hardest hit. Weather experts predict that heavy rainfall could affect the remaining provinces as the rain heads west.


Comment: Other similar events reported 11 days prior: Heavy rains in Nepal kill 20 in 2 days - 11 by landslides and 9 by lightning strikes

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Cloud Precipitation

Manawa dam failure, Little Wolf River area floods in Wisconsin amid heavy summer rain - 5 inches of rainfall in a few hours


Fox News
Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:31 UTC
Wisconsin dam breach led to evacuation
Wisconsin dam breach led to evacuation
A dam in an eastern Wisconsin community has been breached, prompting people living downriver to be evacuated, the National Weather Service said Friday.

Floodwaters breached the dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached around 1:45 p.m., meteorologist Scott Cultice said. The town has a population of about 1,200. It was not immediately clear how many people were evacuated.

Manawa Police Chief Jason Severson estimated that a 50-foot-wide (15.2-meter-wide) area around the dam had eroded.

Homes evacuated

Gates on the dam eventually were opened to release water and relieve pressure on the structure, officials said.

"It looks like the dam is intact, but there is quite a bit of erosion on the north side," Severson told reporters Friday afternoon. "We think the worst of it is over, so now we're going to start assessing things and see where we go from here."


Comment: Related: Satellite images reveal devastating flooding following partial failure of Minnesota's Rapidan Dam

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Heavy rains cause flooding in southern Guatemala


Lastly.com
Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:32 UTC
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Severe flooding submerged the streets of San Miguel Petapa, located in southern Guatemala, on the night of July 5.

Dramatic video captured residents navigating through waist-deep floodwaters.

Fortunately, no fatalities have been reported.

Authorities are monitoring the situation closely as they work to provide relief and assess the damage.

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Death toll rises to 180 in southern Brazil flood - 2,398,255 impacted


Daily Excelsior
Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:04 UTC
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At least 180 people have died from weeks of record flooding in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state and 32 people remain missing, the civil defense agency said.

Torrential rains began on April 29 and continued for days, inundating cities across the state. Rescue and recovery work started after the flooding began to subside in mid-June.

Severe weather has impacted some 2,398,255 inhabitants in 478 towns, including the state capital, Porto Alegre, said the agency in a report, adding that during the height of the storms, more than 450,000 people were evacuated.

Brazil's government has allocated 85.7 billion reals (about 15.4 billion U.S. dollars) to aid and rebuild Rio Grande do Sul, according to Secretary of Social Communication Paulo Pimenta, who was appointed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to oversee the reconstruction effort.

Rio Grande do Sul, an agricultural state located on the border with Uruguay and Argentina, has seen record economic losses from the disaster.


Comment: A prior report from May: 151 dead, 104 missing and 600,000 homeless after heavy rains and floods in Brazil - Worst flood in over 80 years

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Heavy rain causes flash flooding across the Kansas City metro area in Missouri - 6 inches of rainfall in 6 hours

Sean McDowell
fox4kc.com
Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:37 UTC
Heavy rains from storms that swept
© Emily CurielHeavy rains from storms that swept across the southern part of the Kansas City metro area on Monday flooded Tomahawk Park in Leawood.
Morning downpours have left the metro with an afternoon filled with flash flooding.

Many streams and creeks have burst from their banks today. Heavy rain came during the morning hours totaling about an inch per hour for almost six hours. Once the rain finished, flash flooding continued, causing those smaller bodies of water to spill over their banks.

At 103rd Street and Wornall Road, the waters of Indian Creek are usually still. However, NOAA says that the creek has risen 12 feet in a short amount of time. The rough water flowed over the nearby walking trails and attracted crowds of people who wanted to check out Mother Nature's mayhem.

"It looks like the ocean," Hannah Biggerstaff, who works at a nearby veterinary clinic, said.

Biggerstaff said she and a co-worker went out for lunch and couldn't get back to their jobs.

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Croatia's tourist hotspots hit by storms with hail the size of 'tennis balls'

Caolan Magee
inews.co.uk
Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:28 UTC
Red warnings were issued in Zagreb and on the eastern border with Serbia after hail pelted Croatia
© Ivo JugovicRed warnings were issued in Zagreb and on the eastern border with Serbia after hail pelted Croatia
Hail the size of "tennis balls" has fallen on the Croatian capital of Zagreb as a dangerous thunderstorm swept through the country.

Red warnings were issued in the capital and Osijek, near the country's eastern border with Serbia, meaning the storm could cause "possible danger to life".

Orange thunderstorm alerts warning of the risk of lightning and heavy damage were issued for Rijeka in the north of the country and parts of Slovenia.

Dramatic footage showed buildings with their roofs destroyed after a shower of hail pelted houses across Croatia.

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Heavy summer rains cause flooding in eastern Czech republic on June 30


Yahoo! News
Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:27 UTC
Members of the Czech emergency services walk through a flooded street following heavy rains in the Czech Republic's east.
© Glück Dalibor/CTK/dpaMembers of the Czech emergency services walk through a flooded street following heavy rains in the Czech Republic's east.
Heavy rains have caused flooding in the east of the Czech Republic, the emergency services reported on Monday.

There were more than 300 callouts in Zlín, an industrial city some 250 kilometres south-east of Prague near the border with Slovakia, with pumps being used to drain cellars and ground floors and fallen trees cleared from roads, they said.

In the village of Sazovice to the west of Zlín, the water rose to up to 1 metre on the streets. A dozen people had to be taken to safety from their homes.

In Racková, a village to the north of Zlín, more than 40 buildings were flooded, including the municipal offices and the school.

Streams in the areas turned into rivers. Damage was put at millions of euros.

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Death toll from mudslide rises to 13 in Kyrgyzstan on June 30


OMMCOM NEWS
Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:03 UTC
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The death toll from a mudslide in southern Kyrgyzstan has increased to 13, the press service of the country's Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

Heavy rainfall in the Nookat region of Osh Oblast on Friday triggered mudflows, damaging two bridges, and electric poles, and flooding 15 courtyards of private houses. A state of emergency has been declared in the area, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

Meanwhile, in one recreation area, a flow of mud carried away a group of people relaxing on the river bank.

At the moment, the number of deceased has increased to nine.

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