Astana, Apr 17 (UNI) Over 116,000 people, including 40,000 children, have been evacuated from dangerous flood zones in Kazakhstan since the beginning of March, the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Wednesday.
Moscow, April 17 (UNI) More than 13,500 people have been evacuated as of Wednesday from towns and villages in Russia''s Kurgan region that were in imminent danger of being inundated by floodwaters, the regional government said.
Kabul, April 14 (UNI) Thirty-three people have lost their lives and 27 others sustained injuries as heavy rain, snowfall, and flash floods swept through parts of Afghanistan over the past three days, a spokesman for the national disaster authority, Mullah Janan Saeq, said on Sunday.
Astana, April 13 (UNI) Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has cancelled the Astana International Forum (AIF) scheduled for June 13–14 over the large-scale floods that have hit the country and the need to save financial resources to address the disaster’s aftermath, the president’s press service said on Saturday.
Nairobi, April 9 (UNI) Fifty-one people narrowly escaped death after a bus they were traveling in was swept away by raging floods along the Nairobi-Garissa highway on Monday night, the police said on Tuesday.
Dodoma, Apr 9 (UNI) At least 12 children and three adults have been killed by flash floods caused by ongoing heavy rains in the past seven days in different parts of Tanzania, police said Monday.
Sydney, April 7 (UNI) Heavy rainfall across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) and subsequent floods caused significant property damage in the state.