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Rescuers from the Pakistan navy help residents in Dadu evacuate from their flooded homes, as large parts of southern Pakistan remain under water. More than 33 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, brought on by record monsoon rains amplified by climate change. The floods have caused at least 1,300 deaths and washed away homes, businesses, roads and bridges. IMAGES
Eight people including two children have been killed by mountains of garbage collapsing at a landfill in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the city authority has said. Local media says homes, people and livestock animals were engulfed in the landslide at the vast garbage dump in Kiteezi, a district in the north of Kampala, after heavy rainfall. IMAGES
Relentless downpours and howling winds hamper search for survivors of landslides that struck Indian tea plantations and killed 126 people, most believed to be labourers and their families. IMAGES
Images released by Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations on June 11 purport to show rescue operations in the flooded areas of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson. In a statement released with the video, the ministry claims that nearly 800 of its staff and approximately 350 units of equipment were involved in the rescue. IMAGES
Four children, who survived a plane crash and were found alive after 40 days in the Colombian jungle, have been flown back to the capital Bogota. A Colombian army medical plane lands at a military airport at around 00:30 am (0530 GMT), and the children are immediately taken off the plane on stretchers with ambulances waiting to bring them to hospital. IMAGES
Rescue and emergency personnel work at the scene of an attack on an counter-terrorism police station, in Swat, Pakistan, where at least seven people were killed and dozens injured. Several blasts ripped through the building in Kabal town in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks targeting police in Pakistan. IMAGES
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