Pakistani flood deaths increase
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Officials in Pakistan say 278 people have died as a result of a week of torrential rains and snowstorms.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - The death toll in Pakistan due  to the heaviest rains and snowfall in more than a decade rose  to as many as 51 on Friday, and a burst dam in the southwest  raised fears that many more people may have died.
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Overnight rains pushed water levels higher in the Indonesian capital, with at least 44 dead since the flooding began
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Floods have killed at least seven people, including five children, as the fourth week of heavy rains pounded Somalia, bringing the death toll to at least 96.
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The death toll from days of flooding in Indonesia's capital jumped to 29 Tuesday, according to Jakarta's flood crisis center, as torrential rains overnight forced even more people from their homes.
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The death toll from heavy rains in India has climbed to about 660 as a minster said more than a million people were stranded in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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The death toll from floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose sharply to nearly 2,000 people, with many still missing, as officials said they found hundreds more bodies in Haiti's devastated northwestern region.
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QUETTA, Pakistan -- This nation launched a huge relief operation for an estimated 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll to 260 nationwide, officials said yesterday.
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By ZARAR KHAN  KARACHI, Pakistan - Thousands of people were stranded on rooftops and tree branches Wednesday as cyclone-spawned floods surged through towns and villages of Pakistan's coastline, officials said.
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Officials in economically ravaged Zimbabwe issued new warnings Wednesday of floods, as fears grew that flooding in neighboring Mozambique would be more extensive than in 2001 when 800 people died.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town ruined when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 54 were dead and hundreds missing, officials said yesterday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The death toll from flooding  in Colombia and Venezuela grew to more than 80 on Monday as  rescue workers found more corpses, the two countries'  governments said.
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The death toll from floods and landslides unleashed by ferocious storms lashing southwest China jumped to 143 with at least 50 more missing, state media reported.
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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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QUETTA, Pakistan  - A flash flood swept through six villages in Pakistan's storm-hit Baluchistan province killing 30 people and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes as a huge effort to help up to 1.5 million people geared up.
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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 as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.