Posts Tagged ‘floods’

Three more killed by Italy floods, hundreds evacuated

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Two men and a woman were killed when their car fell off a collapsed bridge in Tuscany on Tuesday, as floods battered central Italy for a third straight day. In all four people have died in flooding that forced part of the country’s main north-south highway to close and has damaged [...]

New floods strike southern Russia, four killed

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Floods killed four people and prompted the evacuation of 1,500 others on Wednesday in the southern Russian province of Krasnodar, where a flash flood last month killed 171 people, police said. Heavy rain overnight caused a river to burst its banks, flooding 600 homes in the town of Novomikhailovsky and causing power [...]

Over 100 killed in floods, landslides in Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Floods and landslides killed at least 103 people in southern Russia after two months' average rainfall fell in a few hours, forcing some to climb on to roofs and into trees to save themselves, police said on Saturday. Many victims were elderly people who were asleep in the town of Krymsk when [...]