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Deadliest weather made worse by climate change, report says

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Killer storms, heatwaves and floods affected Europe , Africa and Asia killing more than 570,000 people.

The study was carried out by scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group at Imperial College London .

The deadliest event of the last two decades was a drought in Somalia in 2011 which is reckoned to have killed more than 250,000 .

The researchers focused on the 10 deadliest weather events registered in the International Disaster Database .

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