1.   What followed were weeks of rain running off hills into streams, tributaries and rivers, until banks were breached, flooding towns and village.

2.   Bangladesh is experiencing torrential rains since Tuesday and overflowing rivers have breached their banks.

3.   Gacek warned that rivers might breach their banks in other places.

4.   Houses in the southern town of Dinant were flooded as the River Meuse breached its banks.

5.   Millions of people strengthened dikes and repaired breached banks along the Yangtze River Monday to prevent flooding in central China, state media reported.

6.   Conditions were expected to worsen as mountain snow levels rise and swollen streams breach their banks.

7.   Thousands of people living along the banks of the river were evacuated as the river breached its banks in several places, officials said.

8.   Miaowan village, in the southern part of the province, was smothered when two nearby reservoirs breached their banks.

9.   The downpour caused Shebelle river to breach its banks, deputy district commissioner of Jowhar Ahmed Hassan Ali said.

10.   The latest death toll came from the capital, Ulan Bator, where torrential rains caused the Tuul and Selbe rivers to breach their banks overflow on Thursday evening.