Nine people have been killed in the Philippines and 11 were missing on Tuesday due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, the national disaster agency said.

Heavy rains followed by strong current in a creek between two hillocks -- in Satchhari National Park under Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj -- severely damaged a walk bridge and cut off at least 20 families of Tripura community from markets and localities since last week.

Massive erosion has occurred in the Meghna river due to sand extraction in Bhola, forcing at least 20,000 people to be displaced.

Residents of Rangpur city had to wade through knee to waist-deep water yesterday, as the roads and alleys of most areas were inundated, following a deluge of rainfall overnight. City dwellers blamed the poor drainage system for the situation.

Seven more people were killed in Oman as heavy winds and rain swept through the country after tropical storm Shaheen made landfall, the national emergency committee said on Monday on its official Twitter account.

At least three people were killed in a lightning strike in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur this afternoon.

Tropical Cyclone Shaheen bore down on Oman on Sunday, prompting authorities to delay flights to and from the capital, Muscat, and to urge residents to evacuate coastal areas.

A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent resort, relief authorities said.

Around 80 villages have been flooded in at least six upazilas of Jashore and Khulna districts due to incessant rain last month.

Nearly one-fourth of a 410-metre-long embankment along the Gorai river, on Haripur union side of Sadar upazila, has collapsed in only four years after construction.

After yesterday noon’s rainfall, two-thirds of Khulna city had to deal with severe waterlogging. The rain inundated the city and made residents suffer immensely.

A strong earthquake measuring 5.8 shook Greece's largest island Crete on Monday and one person was killed when a church dome collapsed, authorities said.

At least two fishermen were killed as Cyclone Gulab, packed with a wind power of 90km per hour, made landfall between the coastal areas of adjacent Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh tonight, officials said.

Lakhs of people in southern coastal districts of India’s eastern state of Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh were evacuated ahead of cyclone Gulab’s landfall this evening.

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at many places in the country as the deep depression over East Central Bay and adjoining Northeast Bay intensified into cyclonic storm ‘Gulab’.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist distant cautionary signal one to alert vessels of a depression over the Bay of Bengal.

Classes of 11 government primary schools in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat are being conducted in makeshift buildings after permanent buildings of the schools were washed away recently by the Teesta and Dharla rivers.

The approach road of the bridge on Dhaleswari river in Charabari area of Tangail Sadar upazila was badly damaged again due to heavy rains and increased current on the river for the last couple of weeks, leaving the very important bridge precarious for movement.

Over 100 families have been rendered homeless by the Padma river’s erosion at Goaldubi village under Sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj in last three weeks.

Due to continuing erosion of the Teesta, five villages, Char Gatiashyam, Bogurapara, Khitab Khan, Nakenda and Dhusmara of Gharialdanga union, of Rajarhat upazila in Kurigram were completely washed away into the river.