Flash Floods

Flash floods kill 25 in Sri Lanka: disaster agency

Agence France-Presse | Thursday December 20, 2012

Flash floods have killed at least 25 people in Sri Lanka and left more than a quarter of a million marooned in their homes, disaster officials said on Thursday.

16 dead due to floods, mudslides in Sri Lanka

Associated Press | Wednesday December 19, 2012

Sri Lanka's government says flash floods and mudslides have killed 16 people, with 14 others reported missing, in two days of heavy rain in many parts of the country.

Typhoon kills at least 283, hundreds missing, in Philippines

Reuters | Wednesday December 5, 2012

Blocked roads and severed communications in the southern Philippines frustrated rescuers on Wednesday as teams searched for hundreds of people missing after the strongest typhoon this year killed at least 283 people.

Flood, landslide kill 10 in Indonesia; 20 missing

Associated Press | Friday November 9, 2012

Authorities say flash floods and a landslide triggered by torrential rains on Indonesia's Sulawesi island have killed at least 10 people and left 20 others missing.

Flash floods displace hundreds in Odisha

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday November 6, 2012

Flash floods triggered by incessant rains have killed one person, displaced hundreds of people and damaged paddy crops in Odisha, an official said on Tuesday.

Rehabilitation work underway in North Sikkim

Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 9, 2012

Sikkim Relief Commissioner S B S Bahaduria on Tuesday said relief and rehabilitation work is underway in North Sikkim district which was hit by landslides and flash floods on September 21. He also said that most of the roads that were blocked by land...

Floods affect 700,000 in Pakistan: Officials

Agence France-Presse | Monday September 24, 2012

Flash floods triggered by record rains in southwestern Pakistan have affected around 700,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, officials said on Monday.

24 people feared dead in flash floods in Sikkim, rescue operations on

Reported by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Sunday September 23, 2012

At least 24 people are feared dead in North Sikkim's Chungthang region after it was hit by flash floods and landslides yesterday, triggered by torrential rains over the past three days.

Five missing as bus falls into river in Bengal

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday September 6, 2012

A bus carrying nearly 100 passengers was washed away today in a flash flood in West Bengal's Bankura district.

Five killed as heavy rains lash north India

Press Trust of India | Sunday August 26, 2012

Heavy rain

New storm brings flash floods, landslides to Philippines

Agence France-Presse | Monday August 20, 2012

Tropical Storm Tembin brought heavy rains, triggering landslides and flash floods in the northern Philippines, just weeks after a series of deadly storms and monsoon rains, the government said on Monday.

Kerala to set up State Disaster Response Unit

Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 14, 2012

A State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) unit will be set up in Kerala in the background of large-scale damage and casualties in flash floods and landslips in Kannur and Kozhikode district last week.

Solatium of Rs 3 lakh announced for families of flood victims

Press Trust of India | Thursday August 9, 2012

Kerala Government today announced a solatium of Rs.three lakh each to the families of nine persons killed in recent flash floods and land-slips in Kozhikode and Kannur district.

Body of girl recovered, toll in flash floods rises to 8

Press Trust of India | Thursday August 9, 2012

With the recovery of the body of the missing girl on Thursday, the toll in the August 7 flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Pulloorampara has risen to eight. Though authorities had included the girl, who went missing, among the deceased list on ...

Search on for girl missing after flash flood in Kerala

Press Trust of India | Wednesday August 8, 2012

Search operations for a girl, reported missing in Tuesday's flashfloods triggered by heavy rains in Pulloompara in the district, in which eight persons were killed, were progressing, official sources said today.