Mudslides kill many in Bangladesh
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At least 71 people are killed in mudslides after heavy rain in the Bangladeshi town of Chittagong.
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Heavy rain, swirling waters, mud, silt and marsh combined to hamper frantic efforts to reach thousands of villagers marooned by deadly flash floods in southern Ethiopia, officials have said.
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The International Red Cross says more than a million people are without basic shelter five weeks after a devastating cyclone struck Bangladesh's low-lying coast.
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At least 10 people, mostly children, have died of pneumonia in Bangladesh, officials said, following the worst flooding in years and a UN warning that respiratory diseases could claim many young lives.
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GONAIVES, Haiti : As floodwaters receded, residents cleared out tonnes of mud in the northern Haitian city of Gonaives, where floods killed more than 1,000 and left most others dependent on emergency aid.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine 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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At least 97 people are killed in mudslides in Bangladesh, while officials in India say a heat wave may be coming to an end.
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A mother and her two-year-old son were killed when their home was flattened by a mudslide bringing the death toll from flash flooding in northern Thailand this month to at least eight.
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More than 1.3m Bangladeshis hit by Cyclone Sidr will face monsoon rains in inadequate shelter, Oxfam warns.
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At least 43 people have died and more than a million have fled their homes as a result of torrential rains lashing parts of India and Bangladesh, officials said.
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PUEBLA, Mexico  - A mudslide buried a bus carrying as many as 60 passengers in a remote region of Mexico on Wednesday. A local rescuer said those on board were probably killed but the government held out hope for survivors.
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Typhoon Durian may have killed up to 400 people in the central Philippines after heavy rains and winds sent mud and boulders the size of cars crashing onto villages, the head of the local Red Cross said on Friday.
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Typhoon Durian may have killed up to 400 people in the central Philippines after heavy rains and winds sent tonnes of mud and boulders the size of cars crashing onto villages, the head of the local Red Cross said on Friday.
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REAL, Philippines  - More than 1,000 people have  been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods  devastated three coastal towns in the Philippines, a military  spokesman said Thursday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Flooding and mudslides innortheastern Colombia killed at least 24 people and forced morethan 30,000 from their homes, authorities said on Sunday.
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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.
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In 1970, a powerful cyclone killed nearly half a million people along the impoverished coastline of Bangladesh. Some 138,000 people perished in yet another cyclone that mauled its coastline two decades later.