Miljoenen dakloos door noodweer Zuid-Azië

Ruim 20 miljoen inwoners van India, Bangladesh en Nepal zijn getroffen door de zware overstromingen die de landen al weken teisteren.



Doden
Deze zijn het gevolg van onophoudelijke regenval. Zo'n 200 mensen kwamen om in drie weken tijd. Vele dorpen zijn geëvacueerd en miljoenen mensen zijn afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Het leger is ingezet, maar hulp komt moeilijk op gang omdat ook de infrastructuur is beschadigd.

Mensenheugenis
De regio heeft elk jaar te maken met zware moessonregens, maar dit jaar zijn het de zwaarste sinds mensenheugenis. Sinds het begin van het moessonseizoen in juni kwamen naar schatting ruim 1000 mensen om.

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At least 43 people have been killed and several others are missing after floods in storm-hit central Vietnam. Soldiers were helping to rush emergency supplies to some of the 200,000 people whose homes have been swept away or damaged by the flood waters.


China has been severely hit by bad weather this summer

Soldiers were helping to rush emergency supplies to some of the 200,000 people whose homes have been swept away or damaged by the flood waters. The region is braced for further bad weather as tropical storm Pabuk heads across the South China Sea to China. China has seen months of bad weather, which officials say has affected some five million people. Natural disasters left 712 people dead and 163 missing in July alone, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs said on its website.

'Nothing to eat'
Vietnam is counting its dead after days of tropical storms triggered flooding in several central provinces. At least 15 people died in the worst-hit province of Ha Tinh, which saw some 60cm (24 inches) of rainfall.


Fishing boats in Vietnam were moved out of the way of the storms

The coffee-growing Central Highland province of Daklak saw its death toll rise to 14, with seven still missing, on Thursday. At least four people died in Quang Binh province, and there were reports of a further 11 deaths in other provinces. Officials said their pressing concern was to ensure relief aid was delivered to the many thousands affected by the floods. "At present, hunger is something worrying us the most, because for the last few days people had to escape the water and many of them had nothing to eat," provincial official Nguyen Ngoc Dien was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. The authorities said they hoped to start resuming train services between the north and south later on Thursday.

Aid appeal
Vietnam seems to have escaped the worst of tropical storm Pabuk, which lashed the Philippines and Taiwan earlier in the week. The storm is reported to be picking up strength as it heads towards southern China's Guangdong province, where it is expected to make landfall later on Thursday.



With news that another tropical storm is also forming, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from China's southern provinces as weather forecasters warn of further flooding and landslides. Several areas of China have been hit by flooding, landslides and drought this summer, which the ministry of civil affairs said were "far worse than last year". Red Cross officials are assessing the clean-up effort in two areas which were badly hit last month - the central province of Anhui and Chongqing city, in the south-west. Chongqing received more than 26cm (10 inches) of rain in 24 hours - the most in such a short period since records began more than a century ago. The International Federation of the Red Cross has launched an appeal for financial aid to fund relief and reconstruction. "A major reconstruction effort is needed," a spokesman told the BBC. "It will be difficult to get the amount of money that is required, and the government can only do so much."

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Five people are confirmed dead and 55 are missing believed dead after heavy rain triggered a landslide that buried Dharla village in the Indian Himalayas. Record rainfall across Himachal Pradesh state in the past several days has led to the deaths of 40 other people. The landslide follows massive flooding in large parts of India and Nepal and in Bangladesh where there are serious outbreaks of water-borne diseases. Figures for the death toll from the floods vary widely from 1,000 to 3,000. At least 20 million people across South Asia have been affected by the floods.

'Completely crushed'
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The army has been called in to help look for bodies in Dharla village in Himachal Pradesh. An Indian police official in Dharla told Reuters news agency he did not expect to find any survivors from the landslide that buried the village."Huge boulders 20 to 25-feet high have completely crushed the houses," said Vidya Chand Negi. "There is so much debris that has fallen on the houses that nothing except [a] few lanterns are visible." He said 14 houses and a health centre had been buried under the mud and rocks. At least 40 other people have been killed elsewhere in the state as a result of landslides, flash floods and house collapses caused by the heavy rain.

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