Lightning, mudslides kill 78 in Bangladesh
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh -- Mudslides caused by monsoon rains buried bamboo and straw shacks in shantytowns and collapsed brick houses in southeastern Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 67 people. Another 11 died when they were struck by lightning, rescue officials and witnesses said.
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Floods and landslides have killed 76  people in southwest China in the past four days and washed away  homes and roads, knocked down power lines and cut off at least  one city, state media said on Monday.
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Lightning killed up to 30 people when it struck a remote mountain village in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, police said.
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The number of people killed in mudslides in southern Bangladesh rises to around 118, officials say.
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Eight people were killed by mudslides in the hills near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro after heavy rain swept away flimsy homes in a poor district, rescue workers said on Sunday.
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At least 22 people were killed and several missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains buried hillside homes in Bangladesh's Chittagong port city on Monday, police and witnesses said.
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At least 63 people die and hundreds are missing in India and Bangladesh after storms in the Bay of Bengal.
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Storms in eastern India and Bangladesh   have killed more than 170 people and left around 375,000   homeless over the past four days, officials said on Saturday.
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At least 22 people in southern Bangladesh have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry, police say.
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78 protesters died of suffocation or from convulsions after they were arrested and herded into military trucks for detention following a riot on Monday in Muslim-dominated Narathiwat province, it was disclosed Tuesday.
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Storms that battered Bangladesh and   eastern India have killed more than 170 people and left many   missing, navy and coastguard officials said on Saturday.
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Emergency workers dug through piles of mud looking for more bodies in southeastern Bangladesh Wednesday as the death toll from landslides and storms rose to at least 134 here, officials said.
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Twin bombs targeting former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 78 people on Thursday in a bloody welcome home as she returned from eight years in exile.
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Dhaka, Aug 28. (PTI): Bomb blasts and clashes during an anti-government general strike left about 80 people injured in Bangladesh on Saturday as officials said an Interpol team was on way to Dhaka to probe
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Floods, landslides and lightning strikes have left dozens dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said Monday.
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At least 22 people are killed in mudslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the Bangladeshi port town of Chittagong.
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BEIJING, China -- At least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing after some of the worst rainstorms in recent years triggered landslides and flash floods in southwest China, disaster relief officials said Monday.