Navy scrambles ship to Russian warship spotted stalking the UK coast - Daily Mail

Navy scrambles ship to Russian warship spotted stalking the UK coast

• Type 23 frigate - described as 'core of the front-line Fleet' - set sail for North Sea
• Tail five Russian warships, spotted leaving the Baltic on course for UK waters
• All equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads

By Iwan Stone

Published: 18:57 BST, 4 May 2023 | Updated: 19:39 BST, 4 May 2023

A Royal Navy warship has been scrambled to tail Russian warships capable of carrying nuclear weapons spotted stalking the UK coast.

The Type 23 frigate - described by the Navy as the 'core of the front-line Fleet' - has set sail for the North Sea.

It will tail the five Russian vessels, which have been spotted leaving the Baltic on course for UK waters.

The flotilla includes five warships, with two extra support vessels arriving in waters off the UK today.

All are equipped with deadly Kalibr cruise missiles, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads and have been used frequently in Ukraine.

A Ministry of Defence spokesperson told MailOnline: 'We monitor activity within UK waters and its Economic Exclusion Zone, routinely providing a suitable presence to counter and deter threats.'

They added that they are aware of a small number of Russian vessels exercising around the UK and are monitoring the situation closely. 

It comes amid preparations for King Charles' Coronation this Saturday and a record number of world leaders descendng on London.

The Russian flotilla includes Black Sea Fleet frigate the Admiral Grigorovich alongside Baltic Fleet corvettes Sbrazitelnyy, Stoikiy, Sovetsk and Odintsovo, tug Grebelsky and Northern Fleet tanker Kama.

Guided-missile destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov was also pictured saling towards the North Sea yesterday.

Poseidon P-8 maritime patrol airctraft were scrambled by the RAF yesterday to track the Russian ships. 

It comes just weeks after British and German warplanes intercepted Russian jets and a spy plane over the Baltic.

UK and Germany sent Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Amari Air Base in Estonia to identify the two Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft escorting an Ilyushin Il-20 Coot-A intelligence plane, the RAF said.

The Type 23 frigate despatched by the Royal Navy is equipped with harpoon anti-ship missiles, which can fly just above the surface of the water to evade defences.

Based in Portsmouth and Devonport, the Duke Class frigates have a crew of 185 and a top speed of 28 knots (32 miles per hour).

A versatile ship first developed to deal with the Soviet submarine threat, they are usually found east of Suez, safeguarding Britain's trade routes or the country's interests in the South Atlantic.

The Kalibr missile is a cruise missile capable of supersonic speed which can carry a warhead of up to 1,100 pounds of explosive or a thermonuclear warhead.

It has a range speculated to be more than 1,500 miles - the distance from London to Moscow.

Among the Russian flotilla is the Admiral Grigorovich frigate -which has previously been used as part of Russian military intervention in Syria.

In 2016, it destroyed IS and Al-Nusra targets including ammunition warehouses and training centres with Kalibr cruise missiles.

Frigates of the same class are also said to have fired Kalibr missiles against targets in the Ukraine war. 

The group also includes corvettes - the smallest class of vessels still said to be warships.

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Ukraine war: US denies masterminding Moscow drone attack - BBC

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The US has denied Russian claims it masterminded an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday aimed at assassinating President Vladimir Putin.

A day after accusing Ukraine of carrying out the alleged attack, Mr Putin's spokesman said it had been done with Washington's support.

US National Security spokesman John Kirby called it a "ludicrous claim".

Ukraine has said it had nothing to do with the alleged attack. Mr Putin was not in the building at the time.

Ukraine has accused Moscow of staging the incident in order to escalate the war.

Even though Russian attacks have continued unabated - 21 people were killed on Wednesday in the Kherson region in the south - there is no sign yet of an intensification on Moscow's part. However, on Sunday evening a drone was shot down over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, not too far from the presidential office.

• Kremlin drone attack highly embarrassing for Moscow
• What do we know about drone attacks in Russia?

According to President Putin's spokesman, the attack on the Kremlin - a large government complex in central Moscow - occurred early on Wednesday. Footage on social media showed smoke rising over the complex. A second video showed a small explosion above the site's Senate building, while two men appear to clambered up the dome.

On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US was "undoubtedly" behind the alleged attack, without providing evidence.

"Decisions on such attacks are not made in Kyiv, but in Washington," Mr Peskov said.

In his response, Mr Kirby told US media: "Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple."

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"The United States has nothing to do with it. We don't even know exactly what happened here, but I can assure you the United States had no role in it whatsoever."

The US official said Washington did not encourage or enable Ukraine to strike outside its borders, and did not endorse attacks on individual leaders.

Ukraine has said that the alleged attack was a false flag operation by Moscow.

On the other hand, though, many argue that Russia would have little interest in staging an attack that made the Kremlin look vulnerable.

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The latest Kremlin claims came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in the Netherlands.

In a speech afterwards, he called for the creation of a special tribunal to hold Russia's "crimes of aggression" to account.

He said Mr Putin "deserves to be sentenced for criminal actions in the capital of international law", the Ukrainian president said.

He listed alleged war crimes by Russia - including the "millions" of strikes in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and those killed during the occupation of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, at the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion last year.

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for President Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. It says he is responsible for war crimes during the Ukraine war, which includes the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. But it has no mandate to prosecute the crime of aggression.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: drones hitting Odesa daubed with ‘for the Kremlin’; Zelenskiy to visit The Hague - The Guardian

From 2h ago

There’s been another night of substantial Russian missile attacks and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, which has become something of a pattern in the last week or so after a period of relative calm. In the aftermath of Russia’s claims that Ukraine targeted the Kremlin with its own drones and tried to assassinate Vladimir Putin, Moscow launched a wave of kamikaze drones mainly targeting Kyiv and Odesa.

While all of the 18 drones launched against the Ukrainian capital were reported shot down, three drones landed in the area of a school dormitory building in Odesa although there were no casualties reported. Tail fragments for two of the drones had “for Moscow” and “for the Kremlin” scrawled on them.

Finland has received a diplomatic note from Russia complaining over vandalism at a Russian consulate on the demilitarised Aland island located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden, the Finnish foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Finland’s foreign ministry said the incident is “regrettable” and that the damage consists of the consulate mailbox being torn down, and a window being broken after a bottle of beer was thrown at the consulate.

There continues to be intermittent air alerts in Ukraine. Kherson oblast has just declared another one.

Tamara Cohen, political correspondent at Sky News, has tweeted that she has spoken to a senior UK defence source about the Kremlin drone incident. She reports they told her:

Anything is possible, but there is no benefit to Ukraine doing it, there is no military advantage, everyone knows Putin doesn’t stay in the Kremlin and the motives are all really in Russia’s favour – the public to rally round; excuse for more random and reckless bombardments; trying to gain sympathy for Russia over Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will have a meeting at the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague during a visit to the Netherlands on Thursday, the court has said without giving further detail, Reuters reports.

In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for alleged deportation of children from Ukraine, a war crime.

Zelenskiy arrived in the Netherlands overnight after his visit to Helsinki yesterday.

The Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont is in southern Ukraine and visited Kherson on Tuesday. Today he managed to talk to two residents in the city who described a night of very heavy shelling. Peter says:

When we were in Kherson on Tuesday there was intermittent shelling. Because the city fell without a fight at the beginning of the war, most of the damage you see has been from Russian shelling since the liberation on 11 November.

To give a sense of what it’s like, the most dangerous areas have been close to the Dnieper River, which has recently been in a red zone forbidden to journalists and non-locals.

While there were people moving around the city on Tuesday, that’s changed with residents telling us they plan to stay indoors even before the strict weekend long curfew that starts tomorrow night. If people are going out at all it is to stock up on food and water.

Some people told us they were sleeping in their clothes to be ready to go to the shelters.

Andriy Vanin, 54, is a local camera operator, although he has been unemployed since the war started. Here’s what he had to say.

We live in the north of the city, as far from the river as you can get. We couldn’t sleep last night. Until 1am it was very noisy with a lot of shelling. After 1 there was a break and we tried to sleep, then at 4.30 m the Ukrainian artillery started shelling the Russian positions on the left bank.

Yesterday I had to go out around city I drive along city. I was near one of the places that was shelled. It felt like walking on a razor blade. Now I don’t want to leave the house.

From tomorrow night we’ll be under a strict curfew announced by the authorities. First thing is safety but we assume this has something to do with the counter offensive.

Right now it’s quiet in my district. We are going out to buy drinking water and bread. There’s a couple of small markets nearby but we are going do it fast, like in half an hour, because of the shelling.

I also spoke to Kateryna Symonova, who owned a bar before the war, and now works at the technical university.

It was really loud. We heard a lot bombing. Big and close and we could hear it all the time. It was bad enough that the whole apartment was shaking. We went down to basement for a time after it started at 10pm.

We assume they’ll start again today. Now they’re closing the city and I guess it means something big is coming. We have enough food and water and I’ve sent my parents out of Kherson, so it’s just me my husband.

Now even though the curfew doesn’t start until tomorrow evening, most people have decided to stay at home. It’s really scary to go outside. But it’s also really scary staying at home.

Anton Gerashchenko, the former deputy minister of internal affairs and a current adviser to the interior ministry, has posted to social media what he claims is a video clip of air defences in Ukraine being launched against the overnight drone attack.

The Guardian has not independently verified the location and timing of the video.

Russia’s state-owned news agency Tass has published overnight quotes from Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the US. It quotes him as saying:

How would the Americans react if a drone hit the White House, the Capitol or the Pentagon? The answer for any politician, and even the layman, is obvious: the punishment will be tough and inevitable. Russia will respond to a daring and arrogant terrorist attack.

In criticism of the US response to the incident, he said Washington “did not find it possible to recognise the obvious – a terrorist act planned by the regime of Zelenskiy and an attempt on the life of the president of the Russian Federation”.

Putin is not thought to have been in the Kremlin at the time of the incident.

Antonov went on to say:

Blasphemous and deceitful were the theses that this terrorist attack was allegedly an ‘operation under a false flag’. That is, it was Russia itself that organised the provocation against the heart of our statehood?

The world remembers how, in 2001, the Russian president was the first to reach out to the American people, who were then subjected to a terrorist attack. Everything is forgotten. Today, the US defends Kyiv criminals.

Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, has this report on its Telegram channel for the partly occupied Donetsk region:

On the night of 4 May, the Russian military launched a rocket attack on Kramatorsk, damaging the building of the educational institution and nearby residential buildings. There are no dead or injured, reported the head of the Donetsk region Kirylenko.

Also, Avdiivka came under fire from artillery – the city was also hit by an air missile – houses and the territory of the enterprise were damaged.

During the past day, the Russian military shelled Kurakhivska, Kostyantynivska and other communities of Donetsk region. On 3 May, two residents were killed and nine others were injured in Donetsk region.

The claims have not been independently verified.

Here are some of the latest images sent to us from Ukraine over the news wires, showing Ukraine’s border guards in military exercises.

There’s been another night of substantial Russian missile attacks and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, which has become something of a pattern in the last week or so after a period of relative calm. In the aftermath of Russia’s claims that Ukraine targeted the Kremlin with its own drones and tried to assassinate Vladimir Putin, Moscow launched a wave of kamikaze drones mainly targeting Kyiv and Odesa.

While all of the 18 drones launched against the Ukrainian capital were reported shot down, three drones landed in the area of a school dormitory building in Odesa although there were no casualties reported. Tail fragments for two of the drones had “for Moscow” and “for the Kremlin” scrawled on them.

If you’re just joining us, this is what happened overnight in Ukraine:

• Ukrainian air defences said they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday. In a statement, Kyiv city administration said that all missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital for the third time in four days, have been destroyed. No casualties were reported.

• The US embassy in Ukraine has warned US citizens in the country of that there is an “ongoing heightened threat of missile attacks, including in Kyiv and Kyiv oblast”. It said, “In light of the recent uptick in strikes across Ukraine and inflammatory rhetoric from Moscow, the Department of State cautions US citizens of an ongoing heightened threat of missile attacks, including in Kyiv and Kyiv oblast.”

• Russian emergency services extinguished the fire at a large oil refinery in Russia two hours after it was hit in a drone attack, TASS news agency reported early on Thursday. TASS said the incident occurred at the Ilsky refinery near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region. A day earlier, a fuel depot further to the west caught on fire near a bridge linking Russia’s mainland with the occupied Crimea peninsula.

• Dutch media are reporting that Zelensky arrived at Amsterdam’s airport late Wednesday, with a trip to the international criminal court in The Hague on his agenda. Zelenskiy is expected to deliver a speech in The Hague entitled “No peace without justice for Ukraine”, according to public broadcaster NOS.

• Zelenskiy has denied Russian claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin that was intended to kill the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian president said on Wednesday: “We don’t attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory and defend our towns and cities.” The Kremlin said on Wednesday that two drones had been used in the attack, but that they had been disabled by Russian defences. It has vowed to take retaliatory measures.

The Guardian’s Pjotr Sauer and Dan Sabbagh reported earlier that Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denied Russian claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin that was intended to kill the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

The Ukrainian president said on Wednesday: “We don’t attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory and defend our towns and cities.”

“We leave it to the tribunal,” he added.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that two drones had been used in the attack, but that they had been disabled by Russian defences. It has vowed to take retaliatory measures.

The Kyiv city administration says that the only damage done by drones in the capital last night was to cars from falling debris.

“Debris fell on various streets around approximately 10 buildings. As a result of falling debris, parked cars (quantity to be determined) and road surface were partially damaged,” the administration wrote on Telegram.

More on this morning’s drone strikes, from Reuters:

Ukrainian air defences said they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday.

In a statement, Kyiv city administration said that all missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital for the third time in four days, have been destroyed.

“The Russians have attacked Kyiv using Shahed loitering munitions and missiles, likely the ballistic type,” the administration said.

Out of 15 Shahed kamikaze drones fired at the Black Sea coastal city of Odesa, air defences destroyed 12, while three struck a university compound. There were no casualties, the Ukrainian southern military command said.

Russia has regularly bombarded Ukraine since October last year, striking at a variety of targets. The latest blasts were reported less than 24 hours after Kyiv said 21 people died in a Russian strike on the city of Kherson.

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Killers who shot British mum and sisters in car are blown up by drone - The Mirror

The killers who were allegedly behind the deaths of a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in the occupied West Bank have been blown up by a drone.

Two Palestinian gunmen have been killed and a third who aided the gunmen was also killed in the raid, in the city of Nablus by Israeli forces.

The gunmen were identified as Hassan Katnani, Maed Mitsri, members of the Hamas militant group. The third man was named as Ibrahim Hura, a senior operative in the group.

A fourth Palestinian civilian bystander, Ziad Shuviri, was reportedly killed during the operation.

However, the identify of those killed was not verified by Palestinian authorities.

A statement by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency says there was a gunfight between the forces, but the Jerusalem Post believes an explosive drone was used.

Smoke rises during a raid by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus ( Majdi Mohammed/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

Maia and Rina Dee, aged 20 and 15, died instantly when their car was shot at and forced off the road on 7 April.

Lucy (Leah) Dee, 45, died in hospital from her wounds a few days later. The family moved back to Israel from the UK in 2014.

Father and husband Leo Dee said today: "I and the kids were delighted to hear that the terrorists were apprehended and neutralised today and eliminated today, and most of all that it was done in a way that apparently did not endanger the lives of Israeli soldiers because that was one of the most important things from our family's perspective.

"I have requested from the Israel Security Agency that since we cannot sit and interview live the terrorists... that we should have the opportunity perhaps to interview live on television members of the family of the terrorist - perhaps the parents, siblings or the parents or the siblings."

A joint statement from security services said that they "will continue to act with determination to thwart all terror threats."

At least nine other Palestinians were also injured in the raid on Thursday morning.

The Palestinian health ministry said: "Two of the martyrs have completely distorted features due to the intensity of the shooting, which makes it difficult to identify them."

Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, issued a statement celebrating the death of the two Palestinians, saying that "as we promised Leo [the father of the Dee family], the long arm of Israel's defence establishment will reach every terrorist."

This incident increases the total number of Palestinians killed by Israelis since the beginning of this year to 104, including 17 children.

Israel has been staging near-nightly arrest raids into West Bank villages, towns and cities for more than a year in an operation prompted by a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis last year.

Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks.

The Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel's 56-year, open-ended occupation of lands they seek for a future independent state.

Some 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the raids were launched.

Israel says most have been militants, but stone-throwing youth and people not involved in the confrontations have also been killed.

During that same time, nearly 50 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.

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Belgrade shooting: Teen made 'kill list' for Serbia school attack - BBC

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A teenager who killed eight fellow students and a security guard in a Serbian school planned the attack for weeks and had a "kill list", according to police.

The 13-year-old was arrested following Wednesday morning's attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school in central Belgrade.

Another six pupils and a teacher were also injured in the shooting.

The motive for the attack is still being investigated, police said.

Officers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, located in the central Vracar neighbourhood, shortly after 08:40 (06:40 GMT).

The suspect, named by police as Kosta Kecmanovic, is alleged to have used his father's guns, both of which had legal permits. The boy's mother and father have since been arrested.

In a televised address to the country, President Aleksandar Vucic described the attack as "the most difficult day in the modern history of Serbia".

He said the suspect would be sent to a psychiatric clinic. Under Serbian law, the suspect may not be held criminally responsible as he is under 14.

Police say he planned the attack a month in advance and that he had carried a "priority list" of children to target and which classrooms he would go into first.

Most of the victims were born in 2009 - meaning they were either 13 or 14 at the time of the incident.

A national three-day mourning period starting on Friday has been announced by Education Minister Branko Ruzic, while no school will take place for the rest of Wednesday.

"It is unthinkable when you see the scene of the place, what the children have been through, and the teachers, the teachers who have tried to protect the children," he told a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Seven girls and one boy have been confirmed among the dead, with four further boys and two girls injured.

"Sadly there is no possible way for them to come back," Health Minister Danica Grujičić said, close to tears. "This is the worst thing I have seen in my whole career as a doctor and as a human being," she added.

A boy who was shot in the neck and chest in said to have suffered the worst injuries, while a girl is in critical condition with a head injury.

Three other boys suffered injuries to their legs, while a second girl was shot in the abdomen and is currently stable.

"There's been an operation and all that can be done [has been] but they're still fighting for her life", the health minister said.

A teacher injured in the attack was also reported to be undergoing surgery and the minister said her life was at risk.

The sounds of crying parents could be heard on the streets around the school hours after the shooting.

Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the school, said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired and managed to escape.

"[The boy] first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly," Mr Milosevic told broadcaster N1.

"I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts. They say he [the shooter] was quiet and a good pupil. He recently joined their class."

"I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots," one student told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.

Mr Vucic said the suspect had become friendly with the guard, who was described by one parent as a "great guy" and "a man who loved kids".

Mass shootings are comparatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.

The western Balkans are awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.

In the deadliest shooting since then, Ljubisa Bogdanovic killed 14 people in the central village of Velika Ivanca in 2013, and Nikola Radosavljevic killed nine and wounded five in the eastern village of Jabukovac in July 2007.

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At least 115 dead in Rwanda after heavy rains trigger floods and mudslides - The Guardian

At least 115 people have died as floods and mudslides swept through northern and western Rwanda after torrential rains, according to the state-run broadcaster, which warned that the toll could rise.

“The rain that fell last night caused disaster in the northern and western provinces,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) said on its website on Wednesday.

The government-backed New Times newspaper reported: “This could be the highest disaster-induced death toll to be recorded in the country in the shortest period, according to available records from recent years.”

Images on the RBA’s Twitter account showed houses engulfed in rivers of mud, roads cut off by landslides, and flooded fields.

The broadcaster said the flood waters were still rising, “causing a threat to more lives”.

Most of the deaths occurred in the western province, which borders Lake Kivu, it said, adding that the flood waters had swept away homes and infrastructure, and led to road closures.

Jane Munyemana, who lives in the town of Rubavu in the western province, said: “I was at home with my children, but we escaped successfully before it collapsed.”

“We plan to remove the flood waters and sleep in it tonight, but we are worried that it may rain again and destroy whatever is remaining,” she told Agence France-Presse.

Other parts of east Africa have been battered by rains and flooding, including neighbouring Uganda.

Rwanda’s minister in charge of emergency management, Marie-Solange Kayisire, said: “Relief efforts began immediately, including helping to bury victims of the disaster and providing supplies to those whose homes were destroyed.”

She called on residents in affected areas to increase patrols, especially at night, so people could be moved to safer ground when it rained heavily.

A woman in the northern province told the RBA: “When the floods started, there were massive landslides which caused trees to fall and bury the road down here. Our plantations were also washed away. We have a big problem down here.”

In Uganda, six people died in the west of the country when landslides struck their homes after days of torrential rain, according to the local Red Cross. It said five of the dead belonged to the same family and were from a single village.

Images shared by the Red Cross showed local farmers perched on steeply terraced hillsides and digging through the fresh mudslide, and homes buried up to their rooftops in mud.

East Africa often suffers from flooding and landslides during the rainy seasons, although several countries in the Horn of Africa have been in the grip of the worst drought in decades.

Experts say extreme weather events are happening with increased frequency and intensity as a result of climate breakdown, and Africa, which contributes the least to global heating, is bearing the brunt.

Last month, at least 14 people died after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides in southern Ethiopia, regional police said. Hundreds of livestock perished and scores of houses were also damaged.

In May 2020, at least 65 people died in Rwanda as heavy rains pounded the region, while at least 194 deaths were reported in Kenya.

At the end of 2019, at least 265 people died and tens of thousands were displaced during two months of relentless rainfall.

The extreme downpours affected almost 2 million people and washed away tens of thousands of livestock in Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Djibouti and Ethiopia.

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