At least 8 people are missing after torrential rain triggered flash floods and mudslides in Tolima Department, Colombia.
The disaster struck during the early hours of 26 December, 2019. According to Colombia's National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres - UNGRD) heavy rain caused the El Mono creek to break its banks, causing mud, rocks and flood water to sweep through the village of La Virginia in the municipality of Chaparral, Tolima.
Twelve people were reported dead across Rwanda on Wednesday night following heavy rains that swept the entire country, officials said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Emergency Management said more could have died, had government not relocated people from wetlands across the capital Kigali.
It was a tough task for Rwanda Police officers who endured heavy rains that hit almost every corner of the country on the Christmas eve, to work beyond expected and rescue people who were in the middle of deadly floods caused by heavy rains.
Rwanda Meteorology Agency warned more rains are expected between today, December 26 throughout December 28.
The agency said the cause of the heavy rains across Rwanda was due to strong winds that abruptly made a U-turn from the Western part of Rwanda - driving away moisture within the Congo forests towards Rwanda.
At least 14 people have died and 33 injured after torrential rain caused flash flooding in the city of Bujumbura, Burundi.
According to Burundi Red Cross, torrential rains and strong winds caused human and material damage in Bujumbura and surrounding areas on the night of 21 December, 2019.
As of 22 December the provisional damage assessment was 14 fatalities and 33 injured. Around 50 houses were completely destroyed and 40 others severely damaged. Over 130 other homes were flooded and in total around 1,200 people (219 households) were affected.
Two people were killed and over 65,000 affected by days of heavy rains and strong winds across Sri Lanka, the Disaster Management Centre said in a statement on Monday.
Over 17,000 people were evacuated to safer shelters while over 1,500 houses were partially or fully damaged in over 13 districts, Xinhua news agency reported.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday visited Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura in North Central Province which was one of the worst affected by floods and landslides.
The Riau administration declared a state of emergency on Friday after water inundated hundreds of villages in six of the province's regencies, affecting more than 62,000 residents in the latest among recent disasters that have killed at least six people.
Riau Secretary Yan Prana Jaya Indra Rasyid said the status was enforced to prepare for a possible worst-case scenario due to the disaster, which occurred after waters overflowed from four of the province's large rivers.
The emergency status applies for 11 days from Dec. 20 until 30.
"With the state of emergency, the regional administration could no longer cite financial difficulties in disaster-handling measures because the central government will provide support through the National Mitigation Agency [BNPB]," Yan said.
As of Friday, the overflowing waters from Riau's Kampak, Siak, Rokan and Indragiri rivers inundated at least 216 villages in 43 districts in the regencies of Rokan Hulu, Kampar, Rokan Hilir, Pelalawan, Kuantan Singingi and Indragiri Hulu.
As many as 25,133 households comprising 62,630 people in the six regencies were affected by floods, which inundated 8,798 houses, 11 kindergartens, 47 elementary schools, 19 junior high schools and 17 senior high schools, according to Riau administration data.
The Riau Disaster Mitigation Agency recorded six casualties to date in floods and landslides that had occurred over several weeks.
Danyal Hussain Daily Mail Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:03 UTC
The flooding hit the town of Reinosa in Cantabria and has been described by residents as the worst in history
This is the shocking moments cars were washed away by torrential flooding in northern Spain.
The flooding hit the town of Reinosa in Cantabria and has been described by residents as the worst in history, with reports saying water levels rose because of heavy winds and rain.
Reinosa has 9,000 inhabitants and there are reports of blackouts.
Residents have been evacuated with powerful waves flowing through doors and garages.
Unusual vortex winds across our planet continue to increase as the Suns out decreases. Highest ever recorded tornado in Bolivia, water spouts in Indonesia, tornado out breaks in December USA, 2x Medicanes in a month North Africa dumping record snowfall in November. A month of rain in hours 4x in the last 30 days and record crop yields in Norther Africa from all the additional rainfall for the 3rd year in a row.
Heavy torrential rainfalls hit across the southern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province on Monday, flooding the streets.
A blackout caused by lightning and the failure of the hospital's emergency power system claimed the lives of four elderly women in the intensive care unit of Khomeini hospital of Ahwaz, the capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan Province.
The women had been hospitalized for respiratory problems caused by air pollution, another problem the province has been plagued with. The emergency power system failed to work when a fuse was struck by lightning.
After hours of heavy rain buildings and houses started flooding in several cities including Ahwaz, Abadan, and Karun on Monday evening. According to the Director General of the Weather Forecast Organization of Khuzestan Province Abadan has experienced 104mm of precipitation in a few hours today.
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