At least 40 dead, 1,000 homeless in Nigerian dam tragedy
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At least 40 people were killed and 1,000 displaced when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of northern Nigerian Zamfara State due to torrential rains.
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The Indonesian government said Wednesday the death toll from Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tidal waves could reach 40,000 in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces as more countries are pledging assistance.
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Aid starts arriving in Nicaragua, where Hurricane Felix killed at least 40 people and left thousands homeless.
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At least five people have been killed  in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas  with more than 100,000 left homeless after days of torrential  rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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Death toll rises to 64 as opposition and media ridicule lack of disaster planning.
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Between 30 and 50 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos, police said.
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About 40 people were feared dead in flooding from a dam collapse in northwest Nigeria, state radio said Sunday.
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More than 50 people were killed and 20  injured in Sudan&#39;s worst floods in living memory which have  partially or completely destroyed 18,000 homes, the head of  civil defense said on Thursday.
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A fuel tanker crashed into two buses and burst into flames on a road in Nigeria's main city, killing at least 30 people, Nigerian Red Cross officials said Thursday.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea, officials said, as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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At least 34 people die in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, officials say.
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Mudslides and floods caused by  torrential rains, and lightning strikes in southwestern China&#39;s  Sichuan province have killed 43 people and left many homeless  over the past week, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have  killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless,  with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet)  deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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Getting aid to those who need it remain a big problem in storm-ravaged Haiti, where up to 1,500 were killed in flooding and 300,000 people were left homeless.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - More than 50 people were  killed after a dam burst in remote southwest Pakistan, adding  to a mounting death toll following the country's heaviest rains  in more than a decade, provincial officials said on Friday.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A major outbreak of cholera in  northern Nigeria has killed 42 people and hospitalized hundreds  in the last two weeks, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Mudslides and floods caused by torrential rains, and lightning strikes in southwestern China's Sichuan province have killed 43 people and left many homeless over the past week, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.