At least 50 killed in floods, landslides in Himachal Pradesh, other states in 3 days

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
21:
At
least
50
people
have
been
killed
in
northern
and
eastern
India
in
the
last
three
days
due
to
flash
floods,
landslides,
and
house
collapses
triggered
by
intense
monsoon
rains,
news
agency
Reuters
reported.

Himachal
Pradesh
has
been
worst
hit
by
the
monsoon
rains
as
22
deaths
along
with
12
injuries
were
reported
on
Saturday
alone.
The
maximum
damage
was
reported
in
Mandi,
Kangra
and
Chamba
districts.

Five
people
who
went
missing
after
heavy
rains
triggered
flash
floods
and
landslides
in
the
state
remained
untraceable
on
Sunday,
a
senior
official
told
PTI.

Earlier,
Uttarakhand
and
Odisha
reported
four
deaths
each
while
Jharkhand
registered
one
fatality.

At
least
six
persons,
four
of
them
children,
were
killed
and
four
others
injured
in
separate
incidents
of
wall
collapse
in
Odisha
on
Saturday.

Heavy
rainfall
in
Himachal
Pradesh
caused
landslides
and
flashfloods,
with
officials
saying
22
people,
including
eight
members
of
a
family,
died.
Ten
people
were
injured
in
the
state
which
reported
36
weather-related
incidents.

In
Mandi
alone,
13
people
died
and
six
went
missing
in
flash
floods
and
landslides
triggered
by
heavy
rainfall,
Deputy
Commissioner
Arindam
Chaudhary
said.
Those
missing
are
feared
dead,
he
said.
The
Chakki
bridge
in
Himachal
Pradesh’s
Kangra
collapsed
due
to
heavy
rains
on
Saturday,
disrupting
train
services
between
Pathankot
and
Jogindernagar,
PTI
reported.

In
Uttarakhand,
a
series
of
cloudbursts
early
Saturday
killed
four
people,
while
10
went
missing
as
rivers
breached
banks,
washed
away
bridges,
and
threw
mud
and
waters
inside
houses,
forcing
evacuation
of
multiple
villages.

Rains
also
pounded
parts
of
eastern
India,
with
Odisha
—
already
reeling
under
floods
in
the
Mahanadi
river
system
with
around
4
lakh
people
marooned
in
500
villages.
Odisha
braced
for
more
damage
with
parts
in
its
north
receiving
rains
since
Friday
night.

In
the
neighbouring
Jharkhand,
a
woman
died
when
a
mud
wall
of
her
house
caved
in
on
her
in
West
Singhbhum
district
on
Saturday
morning
as
the
deep
depression
that
crossed
the
Odisha
coast
on
the
previous
evening
brought
incessant
rainfall
in
several
areas,
an
official
said.
Normal
life
was
thrown
out
of
gear
with
rain
disrupting
power
supply
in
many
areas
for
long
hours
and
causing
traffic
jams
in
major
cities.

The
India
Meteorological
Department
(IMD)
on
Sunday
informed
that
a
deep
depression
over
northwest
Chhattisgarh,
adjoining
Madhya
Pradesh
and
southeast
Uttar
Pradesh
has
weakened
into
a
depression.
The
IMD
said
that
the
depression
will
continue
to
move
west-northwestwards
across
north
Madhya
Pradesh
and
weaken
into
a
well-marked
low-pressure
area
during
the
next
24
hours.