How the world has dealt with extreme floods in 2019

From India and Indonesia to Turkey and Australia, the climate gods have unleashed their fury across the globe

Jul 19, 2019, 14:51 IST1 min

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Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister, Luisa, 6, under plastic sheets as they protect themselves from rain at a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 23, 2019. The death toll in Mozambique climbed to 417 on March 23, after a cyclone pummelled swathes of the southern African country.

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A man takes a photo near a bus crushed by a falling tree in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 9, 2019, as flash floods hit the city.

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Schoolchildren play on melting ice at the climate change-affected Yupik Eskimo village of Napakiak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska on April 18, 2019. With recent unusually high temperatures, life in this remote villages has been affected causing eroded land, flooding and difficulties to access roads and to hunting.

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People row a rubber boat on a flooded road caused by a rainstorm at the Hongqi town on May 27, in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province of China.

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An aerial photo shows a submerged Hatay, Turkey, on January 18, 2019, as people are forced to use boats to escape.

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