Death toll nears 200 in four flood-hit states, rescue operations intensify

Precaution is being maintained in the deluge-hit states as most rivers are in a spate and reservoirs at the danger mark

Current Affairs:-More than 120 individuals were carried from an immersed street in Kutch as salvage tasks were ventured up on Monday in flood-hit Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the four states where almost 200 individuals have died up until now, while nine individuals were killed in avalanches in Uttarakhand and Jammu following substantial downpours.

Downpours died down in numerous pieces of the flood-hit states where over 1.2 million individuals have been influenced and the water level has begun retreating in the storm desolated territories, authorities said.

The loss of life in Kerala rose to 76 on Monday, while in Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra, 116 individuals have lost their lives so far because of storm wrath, according to official information.

Almost 125 individuals stranded on a street washed away by floods in Gujarat’s Kutch region were saved by the Indian Air Force (IAF), while in Karnataka and Maharashtra works have begun to fix streets harmed via avalanches and overwhelming downpours.

In the slope province of Uttarakhand, which is being lashed by overwhelming downpours, six people, including a lady and her nine-month-old little girl, were covered alive in avalanches in three distinct towns in Chamoli region.

Disintegration brought about by whirling waters of the overwhelmed Chuflagad River likewise washed away two structures on its banks.

The state crisis activity focus in Dehradun said the garbage of avalanches fell on three houses in Banjabgad, Aligaon and Lankhi towns in the locale’s Ghat territory catching tenants.

The six individuals choked to death, the middle said.

In Jammu and Kashmir, three individuals from a family kicked the bucket after they went under a rock during an avalanche in Resai area.

Continue Reading

Leave a comment