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.

A Kenyan dam that burst - killing more than 40 people - was illegal, the country's water authority says. The Patel dam was one of a number on a sprawling farm near Solai, 190km (120 miles ...

On Thursday, state labor courts froze more than 800 million Reais (US$ 219 million) of Vale’s assets as compensation for victims Residents devastated by a mining dam burst in Brazil that may ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson to call for international help after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed on Tuesday. He said the situation was “absolutely catastrophic.” ...

[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.