South East Asian storm deaths near 800

东南亚风暴死亡人数接近800人

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2025-12-02

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Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are grappling with severe flooding, landslides and storm damage after torrential rain and vast cyclones hit the region over the past few days. Also, the presidential election in Honduras is too-close-to-call, and the Oxford English Dictionary releases its 'word of the year'. (Photo: A military rescue team vehicle makes its way through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 30 November 2025. Credit: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/Shutterstock)
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  • Though there are about 5,000 kilometres between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, but both,

  • plus Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are grappling with severe flooding,

  • landslides and storm damage after torrential rain and vast cyclones hit the region over the past few days.

  • Rescue workers are still struggling to reach some survivors and some areas.

  • It's incredibly difficult and dangerous as landslides are still occurring even

  • though much of the rain has now eased off.

  • We're going to head to Sri Lanka in just a moment where the president has now declared a state of emergency.

  • But first to Indonesia, where 570,000 people have been evacuated, there are at least 600 dead,

  • but many still unaccounted for and rescue teams are trying to find survivors.

  • These emergency workers in a boat found one man clinging to the trunk of a beetle tree surrounded by water.

  • They just managed to save him, pulled him into the boat and he looked very relieved about that,