Natural disasters, conflicts that ravaged the world in 2024 | Photos
Updated On Dec 31, 2024 04:38 PM IST
- A report, ‘Counting the Cost 2024’, said climate disasters in 2024 caused $229 bn in losses, killed 2,000 people; Conflicts continued in West Asia, Ukarine etc.
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An Afghan woman holds her child as a man salvages his belongings from flood waters outside their house in Maymana, the capital city of Faryab Province, Afghanistan, May 19, 2024.(REUTERS)
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A drone view shows a flooded area following the impact of Typhoon Yagi, in Chiang Rai in the northern province of Thailand, September 13, 2024.(REUTERS)
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Flooded streets and buildings in Thai Nguyen on September 10, 2024, a few days after Super Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam.(AFP)
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A boy sits in a floating basket as people wade through a flooded street following the impact of Typhoon Yagi, in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 11, 2024.(REUTERS)
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People carry bags in the aftermath of a landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, May 24, 2024.(Reuters)
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Rescuers assist residents on a boat as they wade through a flooded road following heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, in Marikina City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 24, 2024.(REUTERS)
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Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River amid a drought in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 7, 2024.(AP)
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Residents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along a dry part of the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, amid a drought, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sep. 8, 2024.(AP)
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Pedestrians stand next to piled up cars following deadly floods in Sedavi, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on October 30, 2024.. Floods triggered by torrential rains in Spain's eastern Valencia region left at least 70 people dead.(AFP)
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Emergency services remove cars in an area affected by floods in Catarroja, Spain.(AP)
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Damage from Hurricane Helene near Asheville, N.C., is seen during an aerial tour for US President Joe Biden.(AP)
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Hillsides burn around Pepperdine University during the Franklin fire in Malibu, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Hundreds of firefighters are racing to control a fast-moving Southern California wildfire thats threatening the wealthy town of Malibu and has forced the evacuation of thousands of residents. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg(Bloomberg)
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Firefighters monitor a burning hillside around Pepperdine University during the Franklin fire in Malibu, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Hundreds of firefighters raced to control a fast-moving Southern California wildfire thats threatening the wealthy town of Malibu and has forced the evacuation of thousands of residents.(Bloomberg)
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A firefighter aircraft drops fire retardant near Malibu, California. The wildfire scorched over 2800 acres near Pepperdine University prompting evacuations along the coast amid high winds with some homes destroyed.(AFP)
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Town of Vahibe, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on December 24, 2024, a week after the cyclone Chido's passage over the archipelago.(AFP)
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Mariana (C) reacts during the funeral of her son Nazary Gryntsevych, a Ukrainian soldier of the Azov Brigade callsign "Grinka", at a cemetery in Vinnytsia, on May 10, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "Grinka" was one of the youngest soldiers to hold the Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol during a three-month-long siege that gave its defenders a cult status, before being captured by Russian troops when they seized Mariupol in May 2022, before being repatriated to Ukraine as part of a prisoner deal with Russia before once again returning to the battlefield where he was later killed.(AFP)
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Ukrainian doctor Ihor Kolodka (C) stands amid the rubble of the destroyed building of Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital following a Russian missile attack, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on July 8, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.. Russia launched more than 40 missiles at several cities across Ukraine on July 8, 2024 in an attack that killed at least 20 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv, officials said.(AFP)
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A Ukrainian infantry soldier of the 23rd Mechanized Brigade sits as he waits to deploy toward the frontline in the Avdiivka direction, in the Donetsk region, on April 3, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.(AFP)
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A mother's farewell to the body of her child who was killed in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip, at the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah on June 25, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.(AFP)
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Palestinians who returned briefly to the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip to check on their homes, ran for cover after a school was hit by an Israeli strike on May 30, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas.(AFP)
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Mourners watched as medical personnel prepared the bodies of 47 Palestinians that were taken and later released by Israel during a mass funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 7, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.(AFP)
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People look through the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024. Israel killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a huge air strike in Lebanon, dealing the movement a seismic blow that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 28 called a "turning point" for his country.(AFP)
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Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on August 4, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.. Middle East tensions soared as Iran and its allies readied their response to the assassination of Hamas's political leader, blamed on Israel, spurring fears of a regional war.(AFP)
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People celebrated at Umayyad Square in Damascus on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria.(AFP)
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Members of Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) received military equipments at a graduation ceremony after getting special combat training for three months in a secret jungle near Namhkam, Myanmar's northern Shan State. The Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), a major Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on November 25, 2024 that it was ready for talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the China border.(AFP)
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