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deathtothepixies -> RE: Hurricane Sandy/Frankenstorm (10/30/2012 6:06:55 PM)
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Monsoon floods in Pakistan over the last two weeks have killed more than 400 people and affected more than 4.5 million others, the government disaster relief agency has said.
At least 37 died in the capital when the heaviest rains for over six decades inundated it, causing 10bn yuan (£1bn) of damage. Officials said 25 drowned in the city, six were killed in house collapses, one was hit by lightning and five were electrocuted by toppled power lines.
At least 60 people are now known to have died in the torrential rain and floods that paralysed the northern Philippines this week, the country's disaster agency has said.
flash floods that killed at least 171 people in the southern Krasnodar region, the Russian government says.
Since the start of the monsoon in June, the government says more than 1,200 people have died in India alone, with scores of others killed in Bangladesh and neighboring Nepal, where floods have hit low-lying southern parts of the country.
Some 19 million people have been driven from their homes in the two countries in recent days
just a simple google search, be happy that you live in the richest country in the world.
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