Indonesia province resumes search for seven missing after landslide and floods kill 15
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesian rescuers are searching for seven people still missing four days after torrential rain hit North Sumatra province, causing flash flooding and landslides which killed 15 people, an official said on Tuesday. Eleven people were killed in landslides in Karo district, Padang Lawas district and Tapanuli Selatan district, and another four died […]
In Sarajevo, rapid hillside construction raises landslide risk
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Reuters Bosnian pensioner Vejsil Kajanija has a new routine – every day he walks to inspect large faults in the ground that have appeared since construction began on the slopes above his historic Sarajevo neighbourhood. Some are deep, large enough to jump across, and they are widening, raising the risk of […]
Multiple climate disasters trigger first ever Red Cross disaster insurance pay-out
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The world was hit by so many floods and landslides in 2024 that it triggered the aid sector’s first multi-disaster insurance pay-out, the Red Cross told Reuters, signalling both the scale of the problem and the need for new financing solutions. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies […]
Death toll in worst Bosnian floods in years rises to 16, officials say
Donja Jablanica, Bosnia Reuters At least 16 people died in floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday and many others were missing as torrential rain and landslides destroyed homes, roads and bridges across the centre of the country, officials said. The municipality of Jablanica, about 70 kilometres south-west of the capital Sarajevo, where the deaths […]
Tropical storm Yagi kills seven in the Philippines
Manila, The Philippines Reuters Floods and a landslide killed seven people in the Philippines on Monday as tropical storm Yagi, locally known as Enteng, dumped heavy rain on the capital Manila and nearby provinces, a disaster agency official said on Monday. In a hilly community in Antipolo east of Manila, three people were killed, including […]
Typhoon Shanshan pounds Japan with torrential rains, severe wind
Updated: 5pm (AEST) Fukuoka, Japan Reuters Typhoon Shanshan deluged large parts of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from the storm’s centre, halting travel services and shutting production at major factories. In the southwestern region of Kyushu, where what authorities say could be one of the […]
Floods, landslides in India’s Tripura displace tens of thousands
Guwahati, India/Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura on Friday after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides, forcing more than 65,000 people from their homes and killing 23, authorities said. Television images showed army personnel manning the rescue craft, while cars and buses were marooned in […]
“Fragile geography”: How missed warnings, ‘over-tourism’ aggravated deadly India landslides
MUNSIF VENGATTIL, KRISHN KAUSHIK and CHRIS THOMAS, of Reuters, report from the devastated Wayanad areas of Kerala state…
Rescuers in China race to find missing, seal dykes after devastating floods
Beijing, China Reuters Rescuers in China scrambled on Friday to locate dozens of people still missing a week after the year’s most powerful typhoon roared into the southern province of Hunan, while emergency workers rushed to seal breached dykes on swollen rivers. Even before Typhoon Gaemi hit on 25th July, China was roiled by months […]
Indian soldiers building metal bridge to marooned area in Kerala landslides
Chooralmala, India Reuters Indian soldiers rushed to complete construction of a metal bridge on Thursday to connect the worst affected area in the Kerala landslides as the search continued for survivors and bodies after the disaster that has killed at least 189 people. Heavy rain in the southern coastal state of Kerala, one of India’s […]