Millions Affected by Severe Flooding in India, Pakistan, Cambodia
Posted by feww on September 26, 2012
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Global Disasters/ Significant Events
- Assam, India. Third wave of flooding so far this year has left more than 1.8 million people marooned in India’s northeastern state of Assam.
- Thousands of villages in 18 of the state’s 27 districts have been submerged under floodwater.
- Flooding has destroyed tens of thousands of homes, and left about ¼ of million people displaced, scores of others dead, injured or missing.
- Health authorities have issued a state-wide alert due to sewage-contaminated water.
- Hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed.
- “Nearly 130 people were killed and six million displaced by the floodwaters in Assam two months ago, which came during India’s June-September monsoon,” said a report.
- Pakistan. Flooding in northwestern, southwestern, central, and southern parts of Pakistan has affected about 4.5 million people so far this year, officials said.
- The deluge has killed at least 370 people, and left about 1,200 others injured.
- Floods have destroyed more than 120,000 homes, and seriously damaged about 155,000 others.
- Up to a million acres of crops have been destroyed.
- Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh is the worst hit region with at least 188 killed and 743 injured due to the flooding, followed by Punjab with 60 dead, said a report.
- Only about 5 percent of the 4,472,351 people affected were moved to relief camps while 4,189,825 are living in the open, without shelter or basic amenities, the report quoted Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as saying.
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
- The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
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- Mass Die-offs
- 2010 Disasters [Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
- Mega Disasters
- 2011 Disaster Calendar
- 2012 Disaster Calendar
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