Torrent of mud comes rushing down a steep hillside after days of heavy rain in Parana state, hitting highway BR 367, leaving two dead and sweeping some 20 cars and trucks along with it, local official says.
Dozens of people were attending a funeral on a soccer pitch at the base of a 20-metre high soil embankment, which collapsed on top of them, witnesses said.
The Italian government released the first tranche of two million dollars in relief funds following a deadly landslide in the south of the country, where rescuers are still searching for a dozen missing people.
Typically earthquakes of this intensity are expected to cause light damage to buildings but the magnitude 5.6 tremor left hundreds of people dead and thousands injured in Indonesia.
Most of the victims were swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or were hit by debris-laden mudslides in three towns in hard-hit Maguindanao province.
Hopes are fading of finding alive any of the 56 people missing after a devastating landslide swept through Las Tejerias town with 36 confirmed deaths to date.
At least 22 people were killed and 10 other injured Achham district and neighbouring Kailali district following the country's latest landlside.
At least 50 people were killed as rains overwhelmed hundreds of villages, sweeping away houses and leaving residents stranded in northern and eastern India.
Five children die in landslide and one adult is swept away by water in economic capital Abidjan's Bingerville neighbourhood, officials say.
Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains during a summer tropical depression killed at least 42 people in the central and southern Philippines.
Rains, landslides have killed 52 people, left more than 100 injured and are affecting more than 27,000 people.
"Most probably he was trying to protect the girl and the landslide buried both of them," officials say, after rescuers find two bodies in Retamas town, north of capital Lima.
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