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Flash Floods: Buried cars and stranded tourists in Death Valley national park

Flash flooding at Death Valley national park closed all roads into the park, buried cars and stranded about 1,000 people on Friday. A deluge brought “nearly an entire year’s worth of rain in one morning” into the famously hot and dry park in the California desert. At least 1.7in of rain fell in the Furnace […]

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Flash Floods: Abnormally heavy monsoon rains kill at least 549 people in Pakistan

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said. Government agencies and the army have set up aid and relief camps in flood-hit regions and are working […]

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United States: At least 15 people killed in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Kentucky

At least 15 people have died due to historic flash flooding caused by torrential rains in eastern Kentucky, the US state’s governor has said. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said that he expects the death toll to continue to rise. President Biden declared the floods “a major disaster” on Friday and ordered federal aid to help […]