Manila cleans up after floods
Flood victims in the Philippines’ capital attempt to return their lives to normal, as the government struggles to provide relief to thousands of families.
Phillip
Flood victims in the Philippines’ capital attempt to return their lives to normal, as the government struggles to provide relief to thousands of families.
Phillip
news.sky.com A 50-year-old British woman is believed to be missing after floodwater hit the taxi she was travelling in, while on holiday on the stricken island of Madeira. Sky’s Louise Beale reports.
Kathleen
Desperate attempts are being made across northwestern Turkey to rescue people trapped by flooding triggered by two days of torrential rainfall - the worst in 80 years. At least 28 people are reported to have been killed but officials are saying that the death toll could get higher. Parts of the country’s largest city, Istanbul, are already under water and forced thousands from their homes. The race is now on to try to stop the situation from getting any worse - with more rain forecast for later in the week. Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports from Ikitelli, Istanbul.
Randall
Saudi King Abdullah on Monday ordered an inquiry into the catastrophic flash flood in Jeddah last week that killed at least 106 people and sparked a rare burst of public outrage. The SPA state news agency said he also ordered that one million riyals (267000 dollars) in compensation be paid to each family of the victims, many of whom drowned or were crushed in cars by what witnesses called “a tsunami.” Prince Khalid bin Faisal, governor of the Mecca region which includes Jeddah, will head the inquiry, assess personal and property losses and establish if anyone bears any responsibility. “We are aware that we cannot overlook the fact that there are errors or omissions from certain quarters” that must be “disclosed and dealt with firmly,” the king’s decree said. The flash flood struck the Red Sea port on Wednesday while the authorities were focused on caring for 2.5 million hajj pilgrims in Mecca 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the east. Witnesses described a wall of water several metres (yards) high sweeping over busy roads, destroying homes and sweeping away hundreds of cars and huge trucks. Unofficial estimates put the damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The inability of the city’s infrastructure to handle the flood and the poor reaction of some officials to the disaster sparked a never seen before wave of open criticism of the government on the Internet.
Fred
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