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Death toll from Ethiopia landslides could rise to 500: UN

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- Agence France-Presse - July 25, 2024July 25, 2024

The death toll from landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia has risen to 257, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that the number of victims could soar to up to 500. Rescuers are pressing on with the grim search for bodies and survivors in the stricken locality of Kencho

Death toll from Indonesia floods, landslides rises to 21

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- Times Report - March 10, 2024March 10, 2024

The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 21, an official said Sunday, with six people still missing. Torrential rains on Thursday triggered the disaster in Pesisir Selatan regency in the West Sumatra province, with more than 75,000 people forced to evacuate. "As

12,000 families in Cox’s Bazar living with imminent risk of landslides

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- Times Report - June 20, 2022June 20, 2022

I am forced to live with the risk of death from a landslide in the foothill. where else a day laborer like me would lie down after work?" said Ariful Islam, a resident of Lighthouse area in Cox's Bazar. Like Ariful there are at least 12,000 families who are living on

Floods, landslides hit Rohingya camps hard

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- Times Report - July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

More than 12,000 refugees have been affected, while an estimated 2,500 shelters have been damaged or destroyed by heavy downpours, the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has said. In the last 24 hours alone, over 300mm of rain fell on camps hosting more than 8 lakh Rohingya refugees - nearly half