Ethiopia flood toll rises as rescuers seek hundreds of missing
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Rescuers clawed through mud and debris with their hands, garden tools and heavy equipment in eastern Ethiopia, searching for hundreds of missing people as the death toll from devastating floods rose.
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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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Survivors of devastating flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of food on Tuesday and officials said the death toll would rise further.
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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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Landslides and floods  triggered by heavy rain have left over 120 people dead or  missing on Indonesia's Java island, as rescuers struggled on  Thursday to pull out bodies buried under thick mud, officials  said.
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About 40 people are missing after floods triggered by heavy rain swept away a bridge in Indonesia's East Java province, police said on Thursday.
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The death toll due to flash floods in Assam mounted to 67 following recovery of six more bodies at Goalpara district in Lower Assam on Sunday morning, official sources said.
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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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Guwahati: The toll in the current wave of flash floods and landslides in Assam has increased to 111. The toll might go up as the rescue operation was continuing in the area.
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The death toll in Haiti from the flooding that has followed Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to at least 1,500 yesterday, with hundreds of Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm
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More than 200 people missing in Central America, with floods and landslides feared after hurricane.
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Rescuers were battling to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 105 with another 83 missing.
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MANILA, Philippines  - The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to at least 348 with 150 others missing Tuesday, most in a region still reeling from a deadly typhoon.
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Flash floods have killed more than 191 people in eastern Ethiopia, sweeping away many of the victims in their sleep, after a heavy downpour caused a river to overflow, police said.
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More than 200 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.
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About 250 people have been killed and 100,000 have lost their homes as catastrophic floods ravaged East Africa, aid workers said Friday as rains continued to pound the impoverished region.
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Nearly a thousand people are dead or missing in flash floods and landslides that have devastated a large section of the northern Philippines, rescue officials said.