Sources: BBC
At least four people are killed when torrential rain causes flash flooding across Arizona, United States. 2025-09-27
At least 28 people are killed after heavy rains in the Agam and Tanah Datar districts in West Sumatra, Indonesia, which triggered a flash flood and cold lava flow from Mount Marapi. 2024-05-11
Three people are killed and another person is missing during severe flash flooding in New Zealand's largest city Auckland. 2023-01-27
The death toll from the ongoing flash floods in Kentucky, United States, increases to 25. 2022-07-29
Flash flooding in Turkey's northern Giresun Province kills at least five people and leaves 11 others missing. 2020-08-23
Flash floods in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, kill 16 people, injure four others and damage several houses. 2020-08-1
A record-setting rainstorm causes flash flooding in Palermo, Italy. The meter of water turns streets into rivers and traps motorists in their cars. Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando says this "water bomb" dropped as much rain in two hours as the Sicilian capital gets in a full year. Two people are reported drowned; that has not been confirmed. 2020-07-15
Iraqi engineers warn that the Mosul Dam could collapse at anytime, resulting in a catastrophic flash flood that could kill up to one million people along the Tigris, with the major Iraqi cities of Mosul, Tikrit, Samarra and Baghdad all at risk. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad has urged American citizens to leave the area. 2016-03-2
Wales becomes the first country in the UK to adopt a presumed consent system of organ donation after members of its legislative assembly vote in favour of the system. 2013-07-2
Heavy rain causes flash floods in Taiwan and the death of four people in landslides leading to the evacuation of 3,000 people. 2012-06-12