Death Toll in South Asia Floods Hits 177
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Rescuers searching through knee-deep water found 33 more bodies in India's remote northeastern state of Assam on Sunday, bringing the death toll from unseasonably heavy rains in South Asia to 177.
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The death toll from a burst dam in Pakistan rose on Saturday to 135 from 80, bringing the country's total number of dead from weeklong rains and avalanches to 278, officials said.
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Thirteen people have been killed and tens of thousands affected by floods sparked by heavy rain across a swathe of Thailand, the United Nations' emergency aid agency has said.
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Pakistan launched a huge relief operation for some 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll over 260 nationwide, officials said on Saturday.
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The number of dead from the quake and tsunamis in and around South Asia has passed 76,700. This, after Indonesia&#39;s Health Ministry announced new figures.
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Unseasonably heavy downpours have triggered landslides and submerged large areas in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal for the past three days, leaving at least 144 people dead, officials said.
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Floods in Southwest China began to recede as torrential rains eased, leaving at least 177 people dead and more than 60 missing, civil affairs officials confirmed Thursday.
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A massive floodcrest has passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River as devastated communities upstream clean up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh - Floodwaters from upstream India have swamped some 80 villages in southwestern Bangladesh, marooning at least 65,000 people, officials said Sunday.    Roads and crops were submerged and schools and homes were standing deep in water...
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GUWAHATI: Nine bodies were recovered in Assam&#39;s Goalpara district on Sunday morning taking the death toll in the current flash floods in the state to 70, official sources said.
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A second spell of floods in less than a month has spread across parts of Bangladesh, killing seven people and leaving thousands stranded, officials said on Monday.
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THE death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose to 17 yesterday, including two men buried inside their homes by mud. Tropical storm Meari has cut a wide swath through Japan
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UTHAL, Pakistan  - Troops and rescue workers used fishing nets Saturday to pull bodies from floodwaters after a dam burst in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 135 people, officials said. Elsewhere in Pakistan, weeklong rains and avalanches claimed the lives of about 143 people, emergency officials said.
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Geneva - The death toll from tidal waves that struck nine Indian Ocean countries has risen to 23 700, the International Red Cross said on Monday.
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Indian officials say at least 26 people have drowned in flooding in the northeastern state of Assam. The officials say the deaths occurred in the state&#39;s western Goalpara district near the border with Bangladesh.
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More rains are expected across Africa, as flooding affects more than 1m people across 17 countries.
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At least four people drowned or were electrocuted over the weekend in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan, bringing India's overall monsoon death toll to 177, officials said Monday.