Cuba suffers two national blackouts as fires, a tornado, and landslides kill dozens

Cuba had its third nationwide power outage of the year, with utility Union Electrica reporting a total disconnection amid fuel shortages and chronic failures. Five days later the grid collapsed again, the second national blackout in that span, with aging plants and rationing still in place. The two outages were an energy emergency, not a storm.

A large wedge tornado struck Ezhou and Huanggang in Hubei, killing at least 12 people, injuring hundreds, and causing extensive damage. Fifteen miners were killed and another injured when part of a closed gold mine collapsed in Wadi Halfa in Sudan's Northern State after miners entered the site. At least nine people, including children, were killed in landslides at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

Seven children and a teacher were later killed when rain triggered a landslide during a class at the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar. Typhoon Bavi and a strengthened monsoon then caused landslides in the Philippines: ten people were killed in Malapatan, Sarangani, when a house was buried, and seven were killed and two injured in Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, with four missing. A wildfire in Los Gallardos, Andalusia, killed 12, injured eight, and left 23 missing.

Twenty-eight people were killed in a fire at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Fujian. Five members of a family died in an apartment fire caused by a gas leak in Giza. At least four people were killed in a building collapse in New Delhi during monsoon rain. Nine workers were killed and 14 rescued when a garbage heap collapsed onto a building at a waste plant near Pune.

Ten people were killed when a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 crashed after takeoff from San Andros in the Bahamas. South Korea issued its first extreme-heat warning under a new system, for Gyeongsan and Pohang in North Gyeongsang, after temperatures met the severe criteria. A Canadian pilot, Nicholas Dale, 56, of Sooke, British Columbia, was killed when his helicopter crashed into Silver Jack Reservoir while fighting the Gold Mountain Fire in Colorado.

The Cuban blackouts, the Hubei tornado, the Andalusian wildfire, and the Philippine landslides were different hazards with different tolls. Twelve in the tornado, twelve in the Spanish fire, twenty-eight in the shoe factory, and the landslide counts above should stay attached to those places. Fuel shortage, wind, rain, and flame were not one event.