Flooding Destroying Communities Around the World
Different regions of the world have been hit by devastating flooding in recent days as the struggle to adapt to increased precipitation and warming temperatures continues. In Cameroon, rescuers are looking for survivors after heavy rains and mudslides devastated the capital Yaounde on Sunday, leaving at least 27 dead and 50 wounded. In northeast India, the death toll after a glacial dam burst in the Himalayas reached 47 this week, with 150 people still missing. And in Myanmar, some 14,000 people have been displaced by heavy floods during this year’s monsoon season. These disasters come after severe flooding hit Libya last month, thanks to dam break and a storm supercharged by climate change, leaving thousands dead and even more thousands still missing. Rescuers are still diving into the ocean around the city of Derna to recover bodies swept away in the floods. “It’s a city down there,” a diver told Al Jazeera. “More so in the earlier days, as it was populated with bodies. But there’s still a city down there.”
(Cameroon: BBC, AP, Reuters. India: AP, ABC, The Conversation, Brianna Rick analysis. Myanmar: AP. Libya: AP, Al Jazeera)
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