Natural disaster

Lagos (EFE).- Local authorities confirmed on Sunday that the number of people killed in western Nigeria due to flooding caused by heavy rains on Thursday has risen to at least 200. The catastrophe occurred in Kpege village in the Mokwa local government area of Niger State. “Our search and rescue...

Jakarta, Nov 23 (EFE).- At least 100 children have died in the shallow earthquake that shook Indonesia’s West Java province, according to the latest count provided by authorities on Wednesday. The National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) also raised the death toll from Monday’s magnitude 5.6 quake to 271, of...

Manila, Sep 26 (EFE).- At least five people were killed and more than 74,000 evacuated following the passage of Typhoon Noru through the Philippines on Monday. Noru, which made landfall in the northeast of the Philippine archipelago with winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour (115 miles per hour)...