Rain-related disasters have killed more than 200 in a deadly week across Asia

In India and China, torrential rains have killed more than 200 peop༺le in the past week.

Three others died in Pakistan.

Widespread flooding has been reported in North Korea near the bord꧑er with China with no word onﷺ whether anyone died.

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This time of year is monsoon and typhoon season in❀ Asia, and climate change has intensified such storms.

Heavy rains have triggered landslidꦰes and flooding, devastating crops, destroying homes and taking lives.

Historical data shows that China is having more extremely hot days and more frequent intense rains, according to a report released last month by the China Meteorological Administration, 🔥wh🍷ich forecasts more of both in the coming 30 years.

Governments have launched disaste🧸r prevention plans ♚to try to mitigate the damage.

Rescue teams scramble to evacuate people ahead of approaching stormsღ and deliver relief goods by helicopter to cut-off areas.

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China has deployed drones for emergency communication in rain-pro𓆉ne provin🍨ces.

Sometimes it isn’t enough, as the tragic consequences playing out in Asia show.

India: 194 dead, 187 missing

Heavy rains sent torrents of mud and water through tea estates and villages in Kerala state in southern India early Tuesday, destroying bridges a༒nd flattening houses.

Hope of🎐 finding survivors has waned as the search ente♏red its fourth day. Bodies have been found as many as 20 miles downriver from the main landslides.

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The area is known for its picturesque ☂tea and cardamom estates, with hundreds of plantation workers living in nearby temporary shelters.

“This was a very beautiful place,” a shopkeeper said. “I used to visit here many times. … Now there is nothing left.”

India regularly has severe floods during the monsoon season, which 𒅌runs between June and September and brings rain that is crucial for crops.

China: 48 dead, 35 missing

Typhoon Gaemi was blamed for more than 30 deaths in the Philippines and 10 in Taiwan as it chuꦡrned through the western Pacific last week, but it was still fatal after weakening to a tropical storm in China.

Rain drenched parts of inland Hunan provinc🌺e for several days.

On Sunday morning, a mudslide slammed into a homestay 👍house in a popular weekend spot, killing 15 people.

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Elsewhere in Hunan, the bodies of three people were found o﷽n Monday, believed to be victims of another landslide.

Authorities in nearby 𓃲Zixing City 💫announced Thursday that 30 people had died in floods, with 35 others missing.

One other death in China was apparently tied to the storm, a delivery driver on a scooter struck by falling tree br🎀anches during high winds in Shanghಞai.

China has recorded 25 maj📖or floods this year, the most since it began keeping stat﷽istics in 1998, the Ministry of Water Resources said this week.

North Korea: Damage, but no information on deaths

The tropical storm also generated heavy rain in northeast China on t༒he bor🌞der with North Korea, overflowing the Yalu River, which divides the two countries.

In North K꧂orea, the🌟 rain flooded 4,100 houses, 7,400 acres of farmland and many public buildings, roads and railways.

Its state media did not give information on deaths, though the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un implied there were casualties when he was quoted blaming public officials who had neglected disaster prevention, causing “the casualty that cannot be allowed.”

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Military helicopters and navy and other government boa𓆏ts evacuated stranded🌼 residents.

State TV aired footage showing Kim and other officials riding on rubber boats to examine the scale of t💯he damage. The footage showed houses submerged in muddy waters with only their 🌟roofs visible.

On the Chinese side🦹, state television showed excavators in rush𒆙ing water trying to clear debris after a mudslide in Jilin province.

One city near North Korea asked people living ♊below the third floor to m♛ove higher as the Yalu River rose.

In Dandong, a large Chinese city along the river, resc🔴uers evacuated residents in rubber dinghies on streets turned into virtual lakes. There wer🙈e no reports of deaths.

Pakistan: 3 dead

Record rainfall in the city of Lahore flooded streets and left at least three peo🌼ple dead in Pakistan on Thursday.

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The deaths at the start of August came o🐎n top of 99 rain-related fatalities the previ❀ous month.

Some parts of Lahore recorded 14 inches of 🍨rain in a few hours, breaking 𒆙a 44-year-old record.

The rain was so heavy that it entered some hospital wards in the capital o♐f Punjab province.

The victims included two children, one who drowned in a flooded street and⭕ another who fe💯ll from the roof of her house.