This flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 250.

• Flood Magnitude 7.64
• from 22/06/2012 00:00 UTC to 02/07/2012 23:59 UTC
• 50 killed and 120000 displaced

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Articles: 8 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Self Destruction Of Ghanaians Through Water Pollution
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:43:00 +0200   ghanaweb (en)

1. Life and its necessities Once you are born, the only certainty is death. Suffering, affliction and contraction of diseases are caused by humans except natural phenomena like earthquakes, lightning, etc. It is the application of the five senses of seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing and feeling to....

People and organisations: Environmental Protection Agency  Immigration Service  Water Resources  Company Limited 

Colorado Springs Fire Consumes Homes, Threatens City
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:32:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

Emotions ran high in Colorado Springs as hundreds of people, forced to flee their wooded subdivisions, learned whether their homes survived the most destructive wildfire in state history. A search on foot through neighborhoods burned out by the Waldo Canyon fire showed at least 346 residences....

People and organisations: Waldo Canyon  John Bryan  National Weather Service  Forest Service  Colorado Springs  National Guard  John Hickenlooper  Red Cross  Air Force 

China mudslide
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:07:00 +0200   thenews-pk (en)

BEIJING: Chinese men evacuate students from a school as flood water traps the students in Reshi township of Taoyuan county in southern China s Hunan p

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