Soldiers were also drafted in to help evacuate residents in some areas.

Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to evacuate residents and help emergency services.

Police and the army helped evacuate residents from flooded homes in the western division.

Government ships have been sent to evacuate residents from the island, which is in Madang province.

Boats were brought in to evacuate residents as 130 homes in the Lower Ormeau area were hit yesterday.

Soldiers were also drafted in to help evacuate residents in some areas, with public transport paralysed in many areas.

The Army was called in today to evacuate residents in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, after severe flooding overnight and today.

Water rose in the Fifth District, west of the canal, and troops prepared to evacuate residents who stayed behind.

The death toll from flooding in southern Russia has risen to 53 as rescue workers continue to evacuate residents.

Fears that a second fertiliser tank might explode receded but authorities continued to evacuate residents amid concern about toxic fumes.

With Gustav headed for Louisiana, the agency said it has hundreds of buses in New Orleans starting to evacuate residents.

A four-hour ceasefire to evacuate residents was marred by gunfire on Sunday, leaving hundreds of civilians stuck in their homes.

Schools and kindergartens were closed and dozens of ambulances were on the scene to evacuate residents of a nursing home.

Carrollton Police used a raft to help evacuate residents from Sandy Lake mobile home park, submerged by the weekend's torrential rain.

Factory workers frantically moved machines and supplies in threatened areas to higher ground and boat patrols were mustered to evacuate residents.

The derailment prompted local emergency workers to evacuate residents within 800 meters (yards) from the site as a precaution.