• Picnickers swept away in flash flood

    EPA

    A diver tries to rescue people swept away in overflowing waters at Patalpani waterfall after heavy rains at Patalpani near Indore, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on Sunday, July 17. Five picnickers were swept away in a flash flood after the heavy rains in the Malendi, Kodariya, Badgonda village Panchayat area.

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    Tragic to see a family's weekend end like this when all they wanted to do was have a picnic.

    A family of five was swept away by a rogue wave during a picnic in central India. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

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  • Froilan Gallardo / AP

    Rescuers and volunteers help an elderly woman to an evacuation center following flooding caused by the continued rains brought about by the cold front in the central and southeatern parts of the country, at Sta. Cruz township, Davao del Sur province in southern Philippines, Tuesday Jan. 18. A flash flood Monday night swept at least 100 houses in four villages of this town, killing three persons bringing to 56 the number of people killed following weeks of heavy rains and subsequent floodings in several provinces in central and southern Philippines.

    'Wet year' in the Philippines: Stormy weather kills 56, 19 missing

    By Elena Grothe

    Full story here.

  • Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

    Georgia Baker, a member of the Four States Search and Rescue team, follows her cadaver search dog "Stryker" on the banks of the Little Missouri River in Langley, Ark., on Sunday, June 13. Search crews recovered 18 bodies and were hunting for others on Sunday along a 10-mile stretch of the river after a flash flood swept through a popular Arkansas campground on June 11.

    Still searching

    See more images from the tragedy HERE