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Reports from Bulaga indicates that over 20 houses have had their roofs blown off and plantations destroyed.
The hailstorm hit Nakabugo and Bulaga for about an hour killing four cows and a number of goats. No human life was lost.
By the time journalists arrived in Nakabugo some hailstones were still visible on the ground.
The destructive hailstorm has hit Wakiso when the country is experiencing famine. The Area LC5 councilor Mariam Kaliga urges the government to extend relief items to the people affected.
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The storm came to the island on Friday and brought heavy rains and strong winds of up to 28 meters per second. One person has been injured while 148 houses have been damaged along coastal villages in Hainan's Guangcun Town, the agency quoted the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters as saying.
© Xavier Mascareñas/ The Journal NewsConsolidated Edison crews examine a fallen line near tree debris on Cedar Lane at Stormytown Road in Ossining
Though heavy rain and high winds blanketed Rockland and Putnam counties, the areas near Croton-on-Hudson and Ossining in Westchester appeared to have taken the brunt of the storm.
According to Consolidated Edison Inc.'s website, more than 11,250 homes and businesses were without power across Westchester County about 8:45 p.m. Friday.
In Ossining village, about 2,300 customers were affected along with nearly 1,500 in Ossining town and another 1,800 in Croton. In Mount Vernon, more than 3,000 customers experienced outages.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the government's Disaster Management Agency says the children were buried when mud gushed down from surrounding hills Friday in Kembahang Lama village on Sumatra island. The victims ranged in age from 7 to 10.
Nugroho says their bodies were found late Friday and early Saturday beneath tons of mud and rocks. Two other children were brought to a hospital with injuries.
Seasonal downpours cause dozens of landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a vast chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
Heavy rains have affected western areas of North Korea. Serious damage was caused to agricultural areas.
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© YouTube / ILiveLeakA still from the amateur video.
The terrifying speed and power of a landslide was caught on video from a high-rise apartment building overlooking one of the collapsing slopes in the capital city.
The death toll from both flooding and landslides now stands at 57, The Los Angeles Times reported.
A luminous floating sphere of what could be electricity was spotted near Brisbane, Australia, according to a video posted on YouTube.
The cameraman filmed the UFO at a distance in January last year, and believes it was ball lightning.
The cameraman filmed the UFO at a distance in January last year, and believes it was ball lightning.
© Cory Olsen, The Grand Rapids PressJonas Bouma, 2, of Grand Rapids, looks out at the rain while being carried by his mother, Mindy, Wednesday at the Holland Farmer's Market.
But the Rockford area, which got 5.08 inches, is the center of the heaviest rainfall reports so far, the National Weather Service said.
Update: Lowell is the new top spot in Kent County, with a 5.33 inch rainfall reading.
Totals ranged from 3 to 5 inches throughout much of the region, with other top spots including 6.8 inches in Barry County's Nashville and 5.45 inches in Eaton Rapids.
Here are some of the 24-hour rainfall reports coming in from weather spotters in or near these communities:
© AFP, Jang Seung-YoonSouth Korean men take pictures of a mass of mud after a landslide hit a street in southern Seoul
Among the dead were 16 killed when mudslides hit southern parts of Seoul on Wednesday and 13 who perished in a landslide in the Chuncheon region, 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the capital.
Three others died in a landslide at Paju north of Seoul.
Experts and news media attacked Seoul city authorities, accusing them of making the situation worse through an allegedly reckless development of hills near residential areas in the south of the capital.
Some hillsides were redeveloped into public parks and hiking tracks, meaning rainwater could not be absorbed so easily, and natural waterways were changed to make artificial lakes, critics said.
