Hopes fade for hundreds missing after killer Ethiopian floods
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Hopes were fading for finding survivors from hundreds of people missing after murderous weekend flash floods devastated a town in eastern Ethiopia, officials and residents said.
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Scores of migrants who spent days at sea were missing and feared dead Sunday after their boat wrecked off Senegal's coast, the Red Cross said.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede. More than 650 people were killed and nearly 400 are missing in the disaster, which was triggered by back-to-back storms.
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Blocked roads and rushing water hamper efforts to save survivors of floods in the Philippines which have killed almost 350.
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Survivors of devastating flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of food on Tuesday as officials said that in addition to 662 people killed, more than 1,000 were missing.
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Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep hole on Wednesday &#151; the first mass grave for the more than 1,070 flood victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne. Bystanders shrieked, held their noses against the stench and demanded that officials collect bodies in waterlogged fields. The government late Wednesday said up to 1,250 people were still missing and that the death toll could rise to 2,000 people.
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At least 100 people are dead and scores are missing in some of the heaviest rains and floods southern China has seen in years. Disaster relief officials said Monday at least 67 people have been killed in Sichuan
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More than 100 people have died in flash floods in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Assam over the past few days. The worst affected area is the district of Goalpara where at least 80 villagers are still missing, officials say.
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Large swathes of Bangladesh were  underwater again on Sunday after heavy rains, adding to the  misery of millions hit by flooding that has killed more than  830 people since late July.
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With thousands of decomposing bodies piled up in a temporary morgue on Thailand's southern coast, hope was fading Saturday that any of more than 6,000 foreigners still missing would be found alive.
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Thousands of Filipinos have returned to washed-out homes after four deadly storms in two weeks left more than 1,000 people dead or missing, as emergency supplies ran low and fears of disease grew.
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged and officials were on guard for outbreaks of disease among the estimated 340,000 people displaced.
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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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Nearly 250 Finns still missing in crisis area as hopes fade On Wednesday evening, nearly four days after huge waves brought death and destruction on a biblical scale to coastal communities all around the Indian ...
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UP to 500 people were believed to be dead or missing in the eastern Philippines last night after a tropical storm unleashed catastrophic floods and landslides that smashed roads and bridges and wiped out villages.
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More than 100 Bangladeshi fishermen were missing after at least 15 fishing boats sank in a storm in the Bay of Bengal, witnesses and officials said on Sunday.
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Survivors of devastating flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of food on Tuesday as officials said more than 700 people had been killed and at least 1,000 were missing.