Kerala Floods 2019: Red alert in 8 districts, death toll rises to 46
News | August 11, 2019 12:26 ISTIncessant rains have once again created havoc in Kerala, which left more than 40 people dead.
Incessant rains have once again created havoc in Kerala, which left more than 40 people dead.
Tapti lake begins to overflow after heavy rainfall in Madhya Pradesh. People enjoy taking dip in flooded lake.
Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi said that torrential rainfall submerged vast areas in Malkangiri, Rayagada, Koraput, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Gajapati and Ganjam districts.
The IMD also declared an Orange alert in various districts from August 6 to 9, including in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kasargod, Alapuzha, Idukki, Ernakulam, Kannur and Thrissur districts.
Floods and landslides triggered by incessant monsoon rains across Nepal have claimed at least 113 lives while 38 people are still missing, officials said on Sunday. Parts of central and southern Nepal including some areas of Kathmandu valley have been inundated due to incessant rains since last two weeks.
Several busy roads and low-lying areas were flooded after Agra witnessed heavy rainfall on Saturday. The city had been reeling under scorching heat, for which the rains came as a relief. However, an hour-long downpour in Agra led to traffic snarls along with several other challenges for the locals.
The flood situation in Assam remained grim with the toll touching 66 on Monday following the death of two more persons, as 30.55 lakh people are 18 of the state's 33 districts were affected by the deluge.
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Kaziranga National Park in Assam is home to the world's largest population of Indian one-horned rhinoceroses. Other animals like tigers and elephants are also found in the forest. The excessive rainfall in the state has also led to flooding on the National Highway-37, throwing the normal life out of gear. This highway starts from Sutarakandi near Karimganj in Assam and terminates at Bhali in Manipur.
Though the system was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily weakening since it made landfall Saturday in Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands created a flooding and tornado threat stretching from central Louisiana to eastern Mississippi and beyond. Several Louisiana parishes were under flash-flood warnings Sunday night.
Floods, as much as droughts, are a common occurrence in India, more prominently during the southwest monsoon season -- from June to September -- and the northeast monsoon season -- from October to November.
Four school children were swept off in floodwaters in Maharashtra's Washim district on Tuesday afternoon and two of them were still missing, police aid.
The party's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala blamed the "crumbling infrastructure" of the country's financial capital for the death of 18 people and sought to know whether the state government would own responsibility for the "mess".
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Officials have warned that even though floodwaters are receding, flood alerts remain in place across a few provinces, according to Xinhua
Authorities in Iran on Saturday began to evacuate more towns after forecasts of new round of rains and flooding, state TV reported, as the death toll from the recent floods after three weeks of heavy rainfall in which as many as 70 people were killed.
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