Disaster-Induced Deaths Rise Threefold In Asia-Pacific Over Last Decade
U.N. News Centre: Asia-Pacific report: World’s most disaster prone region experiences three-fold rise in deaths
“…Published by the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the annual report showed that disaster-induced deaths in the Asia-Pacific region rose more than three-fold between in the past decade, largely due to a handful of extreme disasters…” (12/18).
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