Children, women prone to diseases in Pakistan’s stagnant flood water
Karachi, PakistanReuters Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and the death toll from the inundation surpassed 1,500, according to government data and UNICEF on Friday. As flood waters begin to recede, which officials say may take two to six […]
Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500; hundreds of thousands sleep in open
Karachi/Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Unprecedented floods that have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities said hundreds of thousands of people were still sleeping in the open air after the disaster. The deluge, brought by record monsoon rains and glacial melt in northern mountains, has impacted 33 […]
Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths
Karachi, PakistanReuters The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. A high-level body set up to coordinate the relief effort met in Islamabad on Saturday for the first time, […]
Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as heavy monsoon rains lash the country
Quetta, Pakistan Reuters Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including women and children, were killed after being swept away in flood waters, according to Ziaullah Langove, the disaster and home […]
Landslide kills 14 in eastern India, nearly 50 others feared dead
Guwahati, IndiaReuters At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, officials said on Thursday. Rescue workers battled heavy rains to pull out 19 survivors from the rubble on Thursday morning after the […]
Floods swamp more of Bangladesh and India, millions marooned
Dhaka, Bangladesh/Guwahati, India Reuters Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and north-east India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of […]
Monsoon floods kill 42 people, millions stranded in Bangladesh, India
Dhaka, Bangladesh/Assam, India Reuters At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit by the worst monsoon floods in the country’s recent history, officials said. In the neighbouring Indian state of Assam, at least 17 people were […]
“Ruined dreams”: Nepal’s blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather
PRAMOD ACHARYA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of beekeepers in Nepal…
Poor harvests: How drought and hunger is driving Nepal farmers to India, defying COVID ban
AADESH SUBEDI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how an unusually dry monsoon has led some farmers to seek work in India – despite coronavirus-related travel bans…
India wins praise for ‘exemplary’ flood relief as community pitches in
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation From helicopters plucking families from rooftops to fishermen ferrying villagers to safety, India’s response to deadly floods in Kerala has won praise, but experts say unchecked development contributed to the disaster. Nearly 400 people have died since 8th August in the worst floods to hit the coastal state in a […]