Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 600 people with hundreds still missing.
Cyclone-fueled downpours battered parts of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia this week when a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait – a narrow waterway separating the Indonesian island of Sumatra from the other two nations.
Sri Lanka was struck by a separate storm from which heavy rains are now approaching India’s southern coast, prompting the cancellation of 47 flights at Chennai Airport on Saturday, according to a post on X.
The severe weather has claimed the lives of at least 303 people in Indonesia, 153 in Sri Lanka, 162 in Thailand…