7 of 10 SINKING; Pakistan: floods kill 78 and dozens injured! Vietnam: floods and landslide kill 29, four missing! Nigeria: floods killed 137 displaced more the 35,000 since July!

[Stanislav]

Pakistan SINKING:

/ Rain, flash floods kill 78 in Pakistan—officials. At least 78 people died and dozens were injured as torrential rains and flash floods wreaked havoc in Pakistan over the past three days, a government spokesman said Monday. Heavy monsoon rains, which began falling last week, destroyed more than 1,600 houses while damaging a further 5,000, Irshad Bhatti, a spokesman for the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told AFP. “A total of 78 people have died and 68 injured in rains and flash floods in the country so far,” he said, adding that the casualties were caused mostly by houses collapsing and people being caught in floods. The worst-hit region was Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where 32 people have died and 26 were injured in several districts, he said, adding that 83 houses were totally destroyed and another 4,200 were partially damaged, he said. /

Nigeria:

/ Nigeria floods kill 137 since July: Red Cross. Flooding across Nigeria has killed 137 people and displaced more the 35,000 since July, the Red Cross said Monday, warning that latest forecasts suggest the damage could still worsen. The states affected range from Lagos in the southwest to Adamawa in the northeast, where at least 30 people died following the release of water from a dam in Cameroon that caused Nigeria's River Benue to overflow. The disaster management coordinator with the Nigeria Red Cross, Umar Mairiga, who provided the death toll, said 36,331 people had been displaced across 15 affected states. /

Buenos Aires Streching:

/ Floods affect 3.51 million hectares in Buenos Aires. The Minister of Land Affairs of the Province of Buenos Aires, Gustavo Arrieta said today that the floods affected 3.51 million hectares of rich pampas of Argentina, of which 1.50 are in critical condition. 29 million hectares in the province "floods affect 3.51 million and of these, 1.50 million hectares are in critical condition," said the minister in dialogue with the TV channel C5N, AFP remarked. /

Vietnam SINKING:

/ 29 killed in landslides and floods. Landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains have killed 29 people and left four missing in northern and central Vietnam. Disaster official Ngo Van Hung of northern Yen Bai province said that 16 villagers from the mostly poor Hmong ethnic minority group died in a landslide while they were illegally collecting tin ore from a mine operated by a private company. /

Thailand SINKING:

/ Northern flood inundates Sukhothai. Sukhothai province is braced for more floodwater of the Yom River which already overflowed the northern town and crippled the commercial area since Monday. Sukhothai governor Chakarin Plienwong said officials were altered by the water flowing downstream from Wang Chin district in neighbouring Phrae province at the rate of 800 cubic metres on Monday. The governor ordered people living along the river to evacuate and keep their belongings to higher grounds as the water level was rising rapidly in the province including the town where work crews piled up more than 5,000 sandbags along the riverbank to stem the flood. /

/ Flash floods hit Thailand. Flash floods have hit several provinces in the lower North and upper Central regions after days of heavy rain. Many urban areas are still inundated, with two districts in Uttaradit hit the hardest. /

Philippines SINKING:

/ Philippine flood forces hundreds to flee homes. Residents in Sarangani province in the southern island of Mindanao fled to safety before dawn Saturday to take refuge in makeshift shelters, a government gymnasium or with relatives, said civil defence chief Benito Ramos. He said early evacuation that took place before the flood struck saved lives in contrast to widespread flooding that occurred last month in other parts of the country which left 170 dead. /

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Pakistan:

Rain, flash floods kill 78 in Pakistan—officials

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At least 78 people died and dozens were injured as torrential rains and flash floods wreaked havoc in Pakistan over the past three days, a government spokesman said Monday.

Heavy monsoon rains, which began falling last week, destroyed more than 1,600 houses while damaging a further 5,000, Irshad Bhatti, a spokesman for the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told AFP.

“A total of 78 people have died and 68 injured in rains and flash floods in the country so far,” he said, adding that the casualties were caused mostly by houses collapsing and people being caught in floods.

The worst-hit region was Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where 32 people have died and 26 were injured in several districts, he said, adding that 83 houses were totally destroyed and another 4,200 were partially damaged, he said.

In the northwestern district of Swabi eight Afghan refugees were killed when the roof of their mud house collapsed overnight, police official Mohammad Ali said.

The dead, who were members of the same family, included two women and six children aged between one and 12 years he said.

In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, flash flood killed at least 31 people, Bhatti said. Rains killed at least 26 people in that region last month.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/267738/rain-flash-floods-kill-78-in-pa...

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Vietnam:

29 killed in landslides and floods

Landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains have killed 29 people and left four missing in northern and central Vietnam.

Disaster official Ngo Van Hung of northern Yen Bai province said that 16 villagers from the mostly poor Hmong ethnic minority group died in a landslide while they were illegally collecting tin ore from a mine operated by a private company.

Authorities are searching for two other people missing after the incident, he added.

The government disaster agency said flooding killed another 13 people and left two missing in central Vietnam over the past week.

The agency says on its website that flooding caused by heavy rains has caused an estimated 22 million US dollars in damage to rice crops and infrastructure.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jwwdzJ0GJLHs...

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Thailand:

Flash floods hit Thailand

Flash floods have hit several provinces in the lower North and upper Central regions after days of heavy rain. Many urban areas are still inundated, with two districts in Uttaradit hit the hardest.

More than 300 households in Muang and Laplae districts have been affected, with a number of residents isolated, as a 100-metre stretch of road to a key bridge collapsed after being hit by strong currents. About 100 soldiers helped evacuate residents in the 300 homes, and gave relief supplies to them and others flood victims.

Panic reigned in five communities in Muang Uttaradit, which suffered a flash flood up to 50cm deep. Soldiers and relief workers provided assistance and supplies in the two districts, where water was about a metre deep.

A flood washed away the clay foundation under a 50-metre rail section in Lamphun's Mae Tha district, causing a halt to local services and delaying trains between Bangkok and the North from Saturday.

Repairs and filling in the foundation are underway. The work was expected to take 10 days, a local railway official said.

In Lampang, seven districts out of 13 have been declared disaster zones. This covers 81 tambons where thousands of people reside. A reservoir in Na Muen district in Nan was also reported to have cracked, which could risk a flash flood swamping 65 nearby homes.

A total of around 5,000 rai of farmland in Phichit, which has been under torrential rain for several days, has been flooded and most of the rice crop has started to rot. Districts in the upper areas were getting dry but those in lower parts were still inundated, provincial authorities said.

In Phitsanulok, a 100-metre section of a major road was blocked by mudslides, disrupting transport of farm products, commuters and with causing heavy congestion of trucks and large vehicles. Heavy machinery needed to dig out the mud was travelling slowly to the site because of bad traffic jams.

A mudslide warning was given to people in five districts: Nakhon Thai, Chart Trakan, Wang Thong, Wat Bote, and Nern Maprang, the provincial disaster relief office said.

Meanwhile, the situation in Tak improved after heavy rain stopped, but low-lying areas and those near rivers and water remained flooded. Major roads, including the local Asia Route, linking Um Phang, Phob Phra and Mae Sot districts remained flooded, partly damaged or blocked by mudslides, the Um Phang district chief Suchart Theekhasuk said.

There were also warnings about heavy rain in the North, with 80 per cent of areas expected to be hit, especially in Tak, Mae Hong Son and Chiang Rai. The weather bureau anticipated rain covering 40 per cent of areas elsewhere across the country, including Bangkok, with a slight drop in temperatures nationwide.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120...

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Philippines:

Philippine flood forces hundreds to flee homes

Residents in Sarangani province in the southern island of Mindanao fled to safety before dawn Saturday to take refuge in makeshift shelters, a government gymnasium or with relatives, said civil defence chief Benito Ramos.

He said early evacuation that took place before the flood struck saved lives in contrast to widespread flooding that occurred last month in other parts of the country which left 170 dead.

"It was the pre-emptive evacuation: that is why there were no deaths or injuries," he told AFP.

He said the floods were easing and people were starting to return home.

Storms and flooding from torrential rain left affected more than two million people in August.

The Philippines endures about 20 major storms or typhoons each rainy season.

http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/philippine-flood-forces-hundreds-to...

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Nigeria:

Nigeria floods kill 137 since July: Red Cross

LAGOS — Flooding across Nigeria has killed 137 people and displaced more the 35,000 since July, the Red Cross said Monday, warning that latest forecasts suggest the damage could still worsen.

The states affected range from Lagos in the southwest to Adamawa in the northeast, where at least 30 people died following the release of water from a dam in Cameroon that caused Nigeria's River Benue to overflow.

The disaster management coordinator with the Nigeria Red Cross, Umar Mairiga, who provided the death toll, said 36,331 people had been displaced across 15 affected states.

"The latest information that may compound the situation is that the River Niger is overflowing its banks," he told AFP, referring to the river that cuts through several southern and central states.

Riverbank communities in central states like Kogi "may be submerged", Mairiga said.

The rainy season in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with about 160 million people, runs roughly from March to September. Much of the country has experienced heavy rainfall this year which has caused flash floods.

Various government agencies have offered different figures for the damage caused, with emergency officials in Adamawa saying 121,00 people had been displaced in that state alone.

The government in neighbouring Niger said last week that at least 68 people had been killed and nearly 500,000 displaced by flooding since July.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7RDHGhLOSymTTfX...

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Buenos Aires:

Floods affect 3.51 million hectares in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires. - The Minister of Land Affairs of the Province of Buenos Aires, Gustavo Arrieta said today that the floods affected 3.51 million hectares of rich pampas of Argentina, of which 1.50 are in critical condition.

29 million hectares in the province "floods affect 3.51 million and of these, 1.50 million hectares are in critical condition," said the minister in dialogue with the TV channel C5N, AFP remarked.

Arrieta said that floods product of heavy rains that hit the central and southeastern Buenos Aires "are concentrated in 17 districts" of the 135 that make up the province.

"Of these, four were found in emergency and disaster emergency and thirteen in agriculture," he said, which means the extension or exemption from taxes and renegotiation of credits taken with provincial public banks.

The minister said that "losses mainly affect the production of wheat and barley in addition to livestock and beekeeping" Buenos Aires, while there are no reported casualties or evacuations.

The province of Buenos Aires (Central East) is one of the largest agricultural producers in a country that is third largest exporter of soybeans and corn seconds, in addition to being in the top 10 wheat.

According to agricultural entities the situation does not affect soybean planting, which starts only in October.

The National Weather Service said rainfall exceeded 170 mm in August when the historical average is located is 70 millimeters.

http://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/120909/inundaciones-afecta...

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[Andrey Eroshin]

11.09.12. Papua New Guinea floods bring death and damage
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2012-09-11/png-flood...

[Andrey Eroshin]

11.09.12. Flash floods kill or injure dozens in Afghan province of Kandahar
http://www.khaama.com/flash-floods-kill-or-injure-dozens-in-kandaha...

11.09.12. Flood leaves two dead in Iran
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2063960.html

[Andrey Eroshin]

Flood in Sukhothai, Thailand

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Plodprasob-apologies-to-Su...

[Andrey Eroshin]

Nearly 200 people were dead or missing after flood in N Korea

08.09.12. A torrent of water rushes through a mining complex in eastern North Korea. State news agency, KCNA, said that nearly 200 people were dead or missing after flood waters destroyed more than 800 homes and public buildings here. These still pictures show the extent of the damage in the complex in South Hamgyong Province. The country could lose as much as 13 percent of its grain harvest this year as a result of drought followed by widespread flooding, according to South Korean officials. The grim forecast follows a warning by an aid worker who visited the destitute North that it could be facing a return to the famine which killed an estimated 1 million North Koreans in the 1990s. Nearly a third of the country's 24 million people are classified as chronically poor according to the UN.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/09/09/floods-wreak-havoc-in-north...