North Korea flood death toll rises to 169

[Ronan Kelly]

North Korea flood death toll rises to 88: State media

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The flooding between July 18 and 24 "left 88 people dead and 134 injured throughout the country", Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. The agency on Wednesday put the death toll at eight.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 88: State media

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 88: State media

N Korea floods kill 88


July 28, 2012 - Updated 1834 PKT
From Web Edition

SEOUL: Flooding across impoverished North Korea this month has killed 88 people, left tens of thousands homeless and devastated swathes of farmland, state media said Saturday.

A week of floods "caused by typhoon and downpour... claimed big human and material losses", Pyongyang's official news agency said. The new death toll was a dramatic increase from the figure of eight reported Wednesday.

A total of 134 people were injured and almost 63,000 people were left homeless by the floods, which started on July 18, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, with thousands of houses damaged or destroyed.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 119

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 119

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the) N. Korea flood deaths up to 119 amid calls for aid
Report? Agence France-Presse
08/01/2012 15:31 GMTP

SEOUL, Aug 1, 2012 (AFP) - Severe storms in North Korea have pushed the death toll from bad weather this month up to at least 119, state media reported Wednesday, as an aid group said those affected urgently needed help.

Pyongyang's official news agency said 31 people were killed by landslides and lightning during the storms on Sunday and Monday, with a further 16 missing, after many were killed earlier in July during a week of floods.

More than 21,000 people were left homeless by the latest storms, bringing the total number of those made homeless by recent bad weather to around 84,000, according to state media.
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http://reliefweb.int/report/democra...korea/n-korea-flood-deaths-119-amid-calls-aid

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 119

Re: North Korea flood death toll rises to 119

North Korea says 169 killed, 400 missing in floods
Posted on: 04 Aug 2012, 05:19 PM

N Korea Floods: 169 killed, 400 missing
Seoul: Floods Parts of North Korea in recent weeks which hit Killed 169 people and left 400 missing, the State news agency said on Saturday, sharply Updating Casualty figures earlier. Floods and heavy rain between late June and July also made ​​the end of two hundred twelve thousand two hundred people Washed away or inundated homeless
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