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Army soldiers build a temporary bridge for residents near Raini village of Chamoli district following a flash flood thought to have been caused when a glacier broke off on February 7. - AFPn

India's glacier disaster highlights Himalayan dangers
CHAMOLI, India: National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) crew carry the body of a victim following rescue efforts from Tapovan tunnel in Chamoli yesterday.-AFP n

Bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel
PEKALONGAN, Indonesia: Residents wade through floodwaters dyed red from a batik factory in central Java on Saturday. - AFP n

Batik dye causes blood-red flood in Indonesia
A man repairs his makeshift protection wall, to protect his house before the next high tide arrives in Bargny on September 03, 2020. - Fishing villages like Bargny have been fighting the rising seas for decades, hundreds of houses have been lost and families displaced. Through the months of July to September, peaking at the equinox, coastal towns like Bargny must brace for the worst, tides are at their highest, rising every year, storms are more frequent, battering the coastline which speeds up the erosion. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Torrential rains in Senegal expose big gap in $1.4 billion flood plan
A picture shows flood waters in Tuti island, where the Blue and White Nile merge in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on September 3, 2020. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Highest Nile waters for a century swamp Sudan
TOPSHOT - Residents clean debris from their home following heavy rain fall in Chorwon on August 6, 2020. (Photo by - / YONHAP / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT NO ARCHIVES RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE

N Korea on flood alert; heavy rain kills 16 in South
SUNAMGONG: A man works on a boat as a boy walks through flood waters in Sunamgong yesterday. Almost four million people have been hit by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said, with a third of Bangladesh already underwater from some of the heaviest rains in a decade. —AFP

Third of Bangladesh flooded as monsoon drenches region
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