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England - Severe flooding and heavy thunderstorms are expected to hit London for the second week in a row. The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for the southern areas surrounding London.
Ghana - The death toll in the Central Regional flood disaster has risen to eight. While some of the victims died after a building caved in on them, as a result of the torrential rains, which had been falling together with thunderstorms and heavy winds for four straight days, others were electrocuted or simply battered to death by the flood waters.
China - China’s national flood control authorities have put in force emergency response measures in preparation for heavy rainfall forecast up to Friday along the Gan, Xiang and Xi rivers in central and southern areas of the country. Torrential rain is expected to hit a vast area of over 1 million sq km, more than one 10th of the country’s territory, in provinces including Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and the Guangxi region, according to the Central Meteorological Administration. About 460,000 sq km of the area is expected to receive “super torrential rains”, which will worsen the risk of flooding.
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