Flash flood

Rescue teams looking for a car that was swept away in a flash flood in Ilia in the Peloponnese on Monday evening have discovered the body of a woman believed to be the vehicle's passenger.

Hong Kong was flooded by the heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years on Friday, leaving the city's streets and some subway stations under water and forcing its schools to close.

Just across the border, authorities in China's tech hub Shenzhen recorded the heaviest rains since records began in 1952.

Flash floods have struck several provinces in the Black Sea region, killing at least one person and triggering more than 1,000 landslides, with the Turkish State Meteorological Service once again issuing an "orange alert" for the region.

The warning refers to possible crisis situations that could cause the predicted heavy rainfall.

Parts of London have been submerged in floodwater after more than an inch of rain fell on the capital in under an hour.
Flash floods in Knightsbridge burst into luxury shops with cars and buses spraying brown water.
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Recent storms across parts of western Europe made rivers and reservoirs burst their banks, triggering flash floods overnight

Landslides and floods triggered by torrential downpours have left at least 53 people dead in and around Indonesia's capital, as rescuers struggled to search for people apparently buried under tons of mud, officials said on Jan. 4.

Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged a dozen districts in the greater Jakarta area and caused landslides that buried at least a dozen people.

Fatalities resulting from flash floods are on the rise in Greece, according to a new survey which points to an increase in annual deaths from flood-related deaths as well as in the average number of deaths per event.

Turkish aid bodies delivered 20 tents to victims of flash floods that swept Sudan in August.

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) has warned against flash floods in the megacity due to a rainfall expected to continue until Aug. 22.