Five trapped in building by flood
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A rescue boat is brought in to help five people trapped in a building after flash floods in south Wales.
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At least five people have been killed in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas with more than 100,000 people left homeless after days of torrential rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.
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Five people were rescued off the Cornish coast yesterday after drifting for seven days in a life-raft amid storms and 30ft waves after their boat sank near the Isles of Scilly.
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Many people are evacuated from their homes and three people die as severe floods hit England and Wales.
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A major rescue operation involving helicopters was under way on the coast of southwest England after dozens of people became trapped in their cars and homes by rising floodwaters, emergency services said.
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Residents of a previously drought-stricken area of southeastern Australian were Friday being evacuated to safety as rising floodwaters threatened to swamp homes and farmland.
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The flooding today forced some residents to climb to the tops of their vehicles, houses and trees to await rescue.
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Firefighters in Perthshire respond to a number of calls from people trapped by floodwater in Milnathort.
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Hundreds of homes in northwestern Indiana county were swamped by rising floodwaters after a storm dumped up to 5 inches of rain within a few hours, a county official said Thursday.
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A 2-year-old girl drowned after slipping from her mother's grip and falling into the raging floodwaters. A passer-by pulled a 5-year-old stuck in neck-high mud to safety. A man was swept two miles down a swollen, icy river before being rescued.
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Thousands of people clung to rooftops, huddled inside waterlogged homes or hunkered down in shelters Thursday in an attempt to survive the worst flooding the low-lying Gulf state of Tabasco has seen in 50 years.
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More than 48,000 homes have power restored in one of the worst-hit areas as floods recede.
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Crews searching for 57 coal miners trapped for five days by an underground flood began pumping water from their mine Tuesday, as residents began to lose hope for a successful rescue.
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Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city's worst floods in five years.
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LONDON, July 23 -- Britain's worst flooding in decades left tens of thousands of families without water or electricity Monday night and forced thousands from their homes, including some dramatically rescued from rising waters by helicopters and boats.
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A crew of five rescued off the coast of Cornwall after spending eight days adrift in a liferaft have spoken of their &quot;exhausting and frightening&quot; ordeal.
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The UK is set to be hit by more heavy rain following severe floods which claimed the lives of four people.