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“What I feel the most about these days is human stupidity,” says 93-year-old Bun Hashizume, from her home in the Japanese temple city of Kamakura.
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“What I feel the most about these days is human stupidity,” says 93-year-old Bun Hashizume, from her home in the Japanese temple city of Kamakura.
Nearly 300 people have been killed in the landslides in Kerala state, and the toll is expected to rise.
The children they raised do not come here. The grandchildren who brought a sparkle to their eyes no longer climb into their laps. No siblings or in-laws or nephews or neighbors arrive either.
GARHMUKTESHWAR, India (AP) — They were found in gutters, on streets, in bushes. They were boarded on trains, deserted in hospitals, dumped at temples. They were sent away for being sick or outliving paychecks or simply growing too old.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore saw record-high rainfall early Thursday, leaving at least one person dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting normal life, officials said.
Earlier this week, multiple landslides hit the Wayanad district of India’s Kerala State, killing more than 126 people and injuring hundreds of others. The landslides were caused by torrential rains that lasted for days, uprooting trees, burying villages, and cutting off roads and communication lines. State officials described it as one of the worst natural disasters Kerala has ever witnessed.
Forty-one people were taken to hospital on Tuesday after a suspected food poisoning incident at One Raffles Quay in Singapore.