From July 31 to August 6, there was heavy rain and floods in nine districts including eight districts of Gwalior and Chambal divisions such as Gwalior, Guna, Shivpuri, Datia, Ashok Nagar, Sheopur, Bhind, Morena and the Vidisha district of Bhopal division.
By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamored for food, shelter and medical care on Tuesday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding. Quake damage to several major hospitals hampered humanitarian efforts, and doctors in makeshift tents outside battled to save the lives of the many injured, including young children and the elderly. But they could not help them all. There weren t enough doctors and now she s dead, said Lanette Nuel, sitting listlessly next to her daughter s body outside the main hospital of Les Cayes, one of the towns worst hit by both the tremor and the storm s heavy rains and winds. The 26-year-old deceased woman, herself a mother of two, had been crushed by debris during the magnitude 7.2 quake. Now she lay under a white sheet on the floor. We came in yesterday afternoon, she died
The new casualty figures from Saturday’s quake, including 10,000 injured, come as victims struggled with a storm deluge that could complicate relief efforts.
In the middle of July, I started getting messages from people I knew and people I didnt. ‘Are you okay? Was I okay? I was better than okay, I thought. Id just relocated to Berlin. The nightmare of the past year-and-a-half locked up in our flat in Delhi seemed to fast fading.