Sources: BBC
The British government bans far-right Danish activist Rasmus Paludan from entering the United Kingdom over a threat to burn a Quran in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. 2023-03-20
Nine people are killed and eight others are reported missing after flash flooding hits a church in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2022-12-4
The death toll from the ongoing flash floods in Kentucky, United States, increases to 25. 2022-07-29
Flash flooding continues for the fourth day in Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, killing several more people and bringing the death toll to 113. 2021-08-1
Flash floods brought by torrential rains in northeastern Afghanistan kill at least 100 people in Charikar, Parwan Province, Afghanistan, with at least 300 houses in the area destroyed. The Ministry of Disaster Management has also reported some casualties and destruction of infrastructure in the provinces of Kapisa, Maidan Wardak, Nangarhar, Paktia, and Panjshir. 2020-08-26
Two lorry drivers receive prison terms, one of 14 years, for killing eight people when their vehicles collided with a bus on the M1 in Buckinghamshire, England, in 2017. 2018-03-23
Many residents of Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern drought-stricken California are trapped by flash floods after receiving four to six inches of rain in a short period of time. 2015-10-16
2013 China–Russia floods: Twenty one people are killed in a flash flood in Qinghai province. 2013-08-21
One New Zealand tourist is dead and another missing after a family of six is swept away in a flash flood of the Vaisigano River in the Samoan capital Apia. 2012-03-15