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Added on the 11/01/2022 05:10:43 - Copyright : AFP EN
Homes and streets are flooded in Lawrence, a town in Australia's New South Wales on Wednesday. Floodwaters crashed into more towns on Australia's east coast as a deadly storm front barrelled south on Wednesday towards Sydney, where the main dam began to spill water. The death toll rose to 12 in a week-long disaster that has washed cars from roads and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as waters lapped at balconies and roofs. IMAGES
Flooded streets and destroyed homes at LaPlace, in Louisiana, after Hurricane Ida killed at least two people, stranded others in rising floodwaters.
People wade through waterlogged streets as Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro flies over flood-hit areas in the northwestern state of Acre, where prolonged rainfall pushed rivers to break their banks, affecting over 120,000 residents.
Water rises to window level as floods hit southwestern France, where fierce winds recently left one person dead and five others injured. IMAGES
Residents of flooded Simferopol overcame the elements on Saturday, when they rigged an inflatable mattress to the back of a 4x4 and surfed through the streets. Heavy rainfall resulted in floods covering the Crimean city of Simferopol. Streets, courtyards, and squares near the railway station were particularly affected. There were no reported injuries.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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