Floods in Asia
Dozens of people are missing, feared dead after torrential rain in parts of the Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The short burst of rain, described as a cloudburst…
Update, 15 July 2019 The number of fatalities has increased following flooding and landslides triggered by the monsoon season. As of 15 July, authorities reported that 64 people had died,…
Flooding has displaced thousands of people in northern and western Myanmar after a period of heavy rain caused rivers overflow. Kachin State and Sagaing Region Over 14,000 people have been…
Torrential monsoon rainfall in north east India has caused flooding in several states, affecting over 4 million people, leaving thousands displaced and dozens dead. Meanwhile the death toll has climbed…
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre ( FFWC) in Bangladesh is reporting that rivers in at least 9 locations are at or above danger level, and 2 rivers in the…
The flood situation in Assam, India, has worsened over the last 3 days. The annual monsoon flooding in Assam began around 25 June this year, when over 700 people were…
Several communities have been cut-off and tourists left stranded after flooding in remote areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province in Pakistan. KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said a glacial…
Heavy monsoon rainfall in south-eastern Bangladesh has caused landslides and flooding in refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar (Chittagong Division) where more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees live. According to the Office…
Heavy rain has triggered floods in parts of eastern China. Disaster authorities report that 6,351 people have been relocated and a total of 228,000 affected in Jiangxi Province. Severe weather…
After passing over Hainan Island in southern China, Tropical Depression ‘Mun’ made landfall in Thái Bình Province in Vietnam on the evening of 03 July, 2019 with maximum sustained winds…
In response to a series of floods that wreaked havoc across large parts of Tajikistan in early June, the European Union is providing €70,000 EUR (over TJS 750,000) in humanitarian…
Dozens of people have died after torrential monsoon rainfall caused severe flooding in parts of Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra, India. The heavy rain began on 01 July, 2019.…
Nearly 1 million people are under evacuation orders on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan after days of torrential rain threatened to trigger flooding and landslides. According to figures…
Heavy rain and overflowing rivers and lakes have caused severe flooding in the Irkutsk Oblast region in the Siberian Federal District of Russia. Russian news agency TASS reports that 18…
Over 700 people have been moved to relief camps in the state of Assam, north eastern India, after flooding caused by the overflowing Brahmaputra, Barak and Jia Bhoreli rivers. According…
Heavy rainfall in Vietnam caused flash floods and landslides in the north western provinces of Lai Châu, Dien Bien and Lao Cai from 24 June, 2019. Disaster authorities in the…
