PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 1, 2010 (AFP) - The floods that have killed more than 900 people in Pakistan are among the deadliest ever seen in Asia over the past 20 years.
Others include:
June-September 1991: More than 3,000 dead in central and eastern China
September 1992: More than 3,000 dead and missing in northern and central Pakistan following monsoon rains
July 1993: More than 2,000 are killed in Nepal, and around 1,000 in Bangladesh and India, after monsoon rains
June-September 1993: More than 3,300 dead during the rainy season in China
June-July 1994: More than 2,000 dead in China, mainly in the south
July-August 1996: Some 3,000 dead in nine provinces in central China
March 1998: More than 1,500 dead in southwestern Pakistan after floods struck around 100 villages
May-August 1998: More than 4,000 dead in southern and central China, with most of the victims in the Yangtze River valley, in the worst floods since 1954 when more than 30,000 died
June-September 1998: Some 2,000 dead in northern and eastern India
July-September 1998: Around 2,000 dead and more than 30 million left homeless by floods that struck two-thirds of Bangladesh
June-September 2007: Monsoon rains leave more than 1,000 dead and displace 2.5 million others in Bangladesh
August 2007: At least 600 dead or missing in North Korea during heavy rains
August 8, 2009: Floods triggered by a typhoon leave 614 dead and 75 missing in Taiwan
The biggest natural disaster to strike Asia in recent years remains the December 2004 tsunami that struck about a dozen countries and killed more than 226,000 people.