Heavy rain, Brown says, is to blame. Tuesday morning, the man-made dam at Simmons Pond burst, pushing thousands of gallons of ...

At least 500,000 people are without power and clean water across the state. The burst dam triggered a two-metre (6.6ft) wave, causing panic and further damage in the already flooded areas.

No fewer than 42 people have been killed in floods in central Kenya’s Mai Mahiu area after a dam burst early on Monday. The East African country is battling downpours and floods. The governor of ...

Emergency services have been working through the night after a dam on the Ural River was breached in the city of Orsk, near the border with Kazakhstan. Earlier, an emergency was declared across ...

In Zimbabwe, at least 23 illegal miners are trapped and feared dead after shafts and underground tunnels they were working in, were flooded by water from a burst dam, near the capital Harare.

[Kipsang Joseph, Standard] It’s now emerging that hours before the Dark Tunnel Valley dam burst its banks, killing close to 50 people, area residents had raised concerns over rising water levels.

Executives at the company made the request in 2011, four years before a dam that held waste materials burst at an iron-ore mine in Brazil unleashing a sludge wave that killed 19 people ...