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JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI
AGENSI PENGURUSAN BENCANA NEGARA
JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI
AGENSI PENGURUSAN BENCANA NEGARA
KUNMING: Lima individu dilaporkan hilang selepas hujan lebat melanda Zhaotong, sebuah bandar pergunungan di Wilayah Yunan, barat daya China, kata pihak berkuasa tempatan pada Rabu, menurut Xinhua.
Hujan lebat berterusan sejak pagi Selasa telah membadai sebahagian besar kawasan di Zhaotong, menyebabkan kerosakan di beberapa daerah di bawah pentadbiran bandar itu.
Dua rumah di Perkampungan Luobu, Daerah Weixin, telah dihanyutkan air, menyebabkan lima orang masih belum dapat dikesan, menurut laporan awal. Operasi mencari dan menyelamat sedang dijalankan.
Pihak berkuasa Zhaotong telah melancarkan usaha menyelamat dan bantuan bencana secara besar-besaran, dengan lebih 7,000 penduduk dipindahkan ke kawasan selamat setakat 2 petang Rabu.
WASHINGTON: Banjir kilat yang membawa maut telah melanda satu lagi negeri di selatan Amerika Syarikat, lapor agensi berita Jerman (dpa).
Seorang lelaki berusia antara 40 hingga 50 tahun, seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia empat tahun dan seorang kanak-kanak lelaki berusia tujuh tahun maut selepas dihanyutkan arus deras di perkampungan pergunungan Ruidoso, New Mexico, menurut pihak berkuasa.
Video di media sosial menunjukkan air deras mengalir melalui bandar itu dan menghanyutkan sebuah rumah sepenuhnya.
Gabenor New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham telah mengisytiharkan darurat di kawasan terjejas bagi membolehkan pasukan kecemasan digerakkan serta mendapatkan pembiayaan persekutuan.
"Krisis ini memerlukan tindakan segera," tulisnya di Facebook.
Di negeri jiran, Texas, lebih 100 orang termasuk ramai kanak-kanak daripada kem musim panas maut akibat banjir kilat di Sungai Guadalupe. Lebih 160 orang masih dilaporkan hilang.
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MELAKA: For the past week, Sungai Air Batu in Kampung Paya Rumput Jaya, Sungai Udang, has turned black and foul-smelling, believed to be due to leachate discharge from a landfill.
The pollution has persisted since 2023, causing distress to villagers, including smallholders and padi farmers. Resident Syukur Azzaki Abdul Talib, 47, said numerous complaints had been lodged with the authorities, but the issue remained unresolved.
"This pollution has gone on day after day, month after month, year after year.
"We've reported everything, but it keeps happening due to seepage from the landfill. "The black water causes a stench in the entire village, not just homes by the riverbank, because the water flows into the main river.
"There used to be fish in the river, but now there's no life in the thick, black water. No one dares go into it," he said during a site visit.
Paya Rumput Hilir Village Development and Security Committee (JPKK) chairman Mohamad Abdul Rahman said the pollution had affected farmers and padi growers.
"I am dissatisfied with the leachate from the Sungai Udang landfill flowing into Sungai Air Batu and down to the Sungai Lereh estuary.
"It's unacceptable. We've complained for years. Sometimes action is taken, sometimes not, and yet they continue discharging wastewater without informing JPKKs.
"In my area, vegetable farmers are the worst affected. "They can't water their crops because the water is black and contains chemicals that cause plants to die," he said.
Mohamad, who manages a 12ha padi field, said the contamination was affecting his yield.
"I hope the landfill operator and the state government will monitor the situation and ensure the excess retention ponds can contain the leachate before it enters Sungai Air Batu.
"I also hope Rural Development, Agriculture and Food Security Committee chairman Datuk Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh will raise this issue at the next executive councillor meeting."
Crop farmer Mohd Razali Zakaria, 44, said he had suffered losses after his crops were damaged by the polluted river water.
"I didn't get any harvest from my corn. The plants were damaged, and the fruit turned rotten after being watered with the black, foamy water.
"I planted 1,000 corn stalks and nearly every plant had problems.
"Even when I sprayed pesticides using the contaminated water, the pests didn't die. Instead, fruit flies started attacking the crops."
He said he had invested around RM10,000 in the farm.
BARCELONA: Spanish authorities lifted lockdown measures for thousands of villagers in the northeastern Catalonia region on Wednesday as firefighters began taming a forest fire raging for a third day.
The blaze that started on Monday has burned more than 3,300 hectares (8,154 acres) in Tarragona province, with the protected Els Ports natural park making up around one-third of the affected area, Catalan countryside rangers said.
A stay-at-home order for around 18,000 people decreed on Tuesday was lifted except for the municipality of Pauls, where residents were allowed to go outside but not leave the locality, the Catalan civil protection authority announced on X.
Catalonia’s fire service said it had “stabilised” the blaze but continued to work with ground units, helicopters and aeroplanes on several hotspots, including cliffs and areas that are hard to access.
Scientists say human-induced climate change is increasing the intensity, length and frequency of the extreme heat that fuels forest fires.
Spain recently sweltered through a heatwave that parched the land, while national weather agency AEMET said last month that it was the country’s hottest June on record.
According to the European Forest Fire Information System, around 500 fires destroyed 300,000 hectares in Spain in 2022, a record for the continent.
Around 21,000 hectares have burned so far this year. – AFP
NEW DELHI, 9 Julai: Sekurang-kurangnya 10 orang maut selepas kenderaan terjunam ke dalam sungai apabila sebuah jambatan runtuh di negeri Gujarat, barat India, pada Rabu.
Jambatan Gambhira di Sungai Mahi itu menghubungkan daerah Vadodara dan Anand.
Beberapa trak dan kereta terjunam ke dalam sungai apabila sebahagian daripada jambatan berusia empat dekad itu runtuh.
Sepuluh orang terkorban dalam kejadian itu, manakala ramai lagi berjaya diselamatkan dari sungai, menurut laporan media tempatan. -TVS