floods have long been a seasonal threat in north korea which lacks irrigation systems and other infrastructure to ward off natural disasters more than 130 people died after floods struck north hamgyong province in 2016 bringing down buildings and leaving hundreds of thousands in urgent need of food and shelternorth korea suffered a crippling famine in the 1990s when a combination of bad weather economic mismanagement and the demise of fuel subsidies from the soviet union all but destroyed its state rationing systempakistan heat waveone of pakistans most biggest cities karachi was in the grip of a heatwave in may 2018 that left at least 65 people dead the temperature hit 44 degrees celsius and the heatwaves coincided with the month of fasting ramadan when most of the muslims do not eat or drink during daytime faisal edhi who runs the edhi foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in pakistans biggest city said the deaths occurred mostly in the poor areas of karachi the heatwave also coincided with power outages which made it more difficult for the people pakistan faces fastrising spring temperatures with 45degree celsius days coming as early as march weather officials say in march 2018 all 34 meteorological stations across the country showed temperatures more than 10 degrees celsius above the monthly average between 1981 and 2010 said ghulam rasul directorgeneral of the pakistan meteorological departmenta heatwave in 2015 left morgues and hospitals overwhelmed and killed at least 1200 mostly elderly sick and homeless people in 2015 the edhi morgue ran out of freezer space after about 650 bodies were brought in the space of a few days ambulances left decaying corpses outside in the sweltering heatnigeria floods199 people died in nigeria due to the largescale flooding in augustseptember this year in which more than 1000 other people were also injured this year floods have hit onethird of nigerias 36 states since late august affecting 192 million people and displacing over 560000 of them said the national emergency management agency nemathe authorities declared a national disaster in four of nigerias 36 states anambra delta kogi and niger after heavy rains more than 150000 hectares of farmland were inundated and 321 roads and bridges destroyed in the floods the almost annual floods exacerbated by poor infrastructure and lack of planning to protect against inundation are the worst since 2012 when at least 363 people died the floods in 2013 displaced over 21 million peoplesome of the most badly affected areas were along the niger river flooding in recent years has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in nigeria africas biggest energy producer and most populous countryjapan floodsin late june through midjuly 2018 successive heavy downpour in southwestern japan resulted in widespread devastating floods and mudflows resulting in the death of at least 225 people the torrential rain in western japan caused the countrys worst weather disaster in 36 years killing people many in communities that have existed for decades on mountain slopes