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  • Corsica flash flood kills 4 in French canyoning workforce

    Soccia village, Corsica Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption The Zoicu canyon is close to Soccia, a mountain village

    A flash flood in a canyon has killed a father, his seven-year-vintage daughter and two folks on the French island of Corsica.

    A fifth particular person in the French climbing staff – a woman – is still lacking. Rescuers resumed a search for her close to Soccia on Thursday.

    Seven tourists were canyoning with a information whilst a wave about 3m (12ft) prime hit them, a Corsican prosecutor mentioned. The guide was once amongst the ones killed.

    Two have been rescued from the torrent.

    Image copyright AFP Image caption Firefighters resumed a seek for the missing girl early on Thursday

    French media record that the seven had been abseiling (rappelling) into the Zoicu canyon, a famous beauty spot, portions of which are handiest out there with ropes.

    The canyon is at an altitude of one,000m (THREE,280ft) in a mountainous area, and is a well-liked spot for climbing, kayaking and canyoning, which is able to involve ropework, technical mountaineering and swimming.

    There used to be a storm alert in place at the time of the flood on Wednesday, and five different hikers, including the seven-yr-vintage’s mom, had grew to become again earlier.

    The French news web site Le Point (in French) stories that a guide from some other mountain climbing crew threw a rope into the torrent to rescue from the gang in hassle.

    AFP news agency says it’s France’s worst canyoning tragedy since March 2010, when four folks died in an twist of fate at the Indian Ocean isle of Reunion.

  • Myanmar flooding displaces greater than 16,000 other folks

    Woman wading through flooded street Symbol copyright EPA

    Greater Than SIXTEEN,000 persons are thought to were displaced by way of floods following heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

    The flood began at the weekend and worst hit the country’s eastern Kayin state on the border with Thailand.

    Massive spaces were evacuated and those have been moved to shelters to attend for the waters to subside.

    The summer monsoon has introduced heavy rain throughout such a lot of Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Japan.

    Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Many villages had to be evacuated

    in keeping with the Myanmar Times, citizens of the state capital Hpa-an say that while once a year there’s flooding, this time things are so much worse.

    Image copyright EPA Image caption A Couple Of relief camps have been set up to shelter the ones pressured to depart their homes Image copyright EPA Image caption Disaster management government said more than SIXTEEN,000 people have been displaced Image copyright EPA Symbol caption the yearly floods aren’t peculiar but water ranges are extremely high this yr Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Whilst flooding affected many states across Myanmar, Kayin state is the toughest hit Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Displaced households are supplied with safe haven and food until they are able to return to their homes