Chinese enterprises in Myanmar have joined the country's relief efforts in flood-hit areas, while relief aid from the Chinese embassy and companies are being transported in, Chinese ambassador Hong Liang has told Xinhua following his tour in the worst-hit Sagaing region and Rakhine state.
The flood disaster in Myanmar since June has brought the death toll nationwide to 88 and affected more than 330,000 people across the nation, prompting a state of emergency for urgent relief efforts.
Two IL-76 air transport aircraft loaded with relief goods set out for Kuala Lumpur Monday morning, according to China's Ministry of National Defense.
More than 200 people were evacuated on Tuesday night from the flood-affected areas after three days of heavy rainfall in the western Norwegian county of Hordaland.
Flood-hit people in Indian- controlled Kashmir turned their frustration to anger over the slow pace of relief work, and some of them pelted stones at a truck of Indian army who were supposed to come to help them, said media reports Wednesday.
The Nepal government has said that the number of toll from flood and landslide had reached 105, while 20,000 people were displaced across the country.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been engaged in relief efforts in northeast China as the worst flooding in decades has killed at least 40 people since Friday.
The death toll has risen to six with one still missing so far in flash flood triggered by heavy rain and risen rivers in some townships in southeast Myanmar's Kayin state since July 27, said a latest release of the government's Information Team published Tuesday.
A dam near Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg in eastern Germany burst overnight on Monday despite attempts to stabilise it, forcing the authorities to ask more than 20,000 people to leave their homes.
The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in southern Philippines climbed to seven, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Thursday.
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