Floods in India & Nepal kill more than 100
More than a hundred people died in India and Nepal due to floods and landslides after several days of heavy rains that swept houses and roads, authorities from both countries said Wednesday, adding that there are many missing.
In the state of Uttarakhand (north), crossed by the Himalayas, official sources reported 46 deaths and 11 missing people after the floods. In the state of Kerala (south), its chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan reported 39 deaths.
Of the Uttarakhand victims, at least 30 made it through early Tuesday morning in seven separate incidents in the Nainital district, the worst hit, after landslides and the collapse of infrastructure caused by a flood.
In the northern district of Almora, a landslide of a mud wall with huge rocks engulfed a house and killed its five occupants.
Six more people died Monday in two remote districts of this state in the Himalayas.
India's meteorological department extended and expanded its alert on Tuesday, warning of heavy and very heavy rain in the region. The agency had noted that some areas were flooded by more than 400 millimeters of precipitation per square meter on Monday.
Authorities ordered the closure of schools and banned all religious and tourist activities in the state.
Television broadcasts and videos posted on social media showed residents making their way through knee-deep water near Nainital Lake, a local tourist attraction, and the Ganges River flowing out of its channel in Rishikesh.
In neighboring Nepal, Humkala Pandey, an official in the disaster management division, said that "in the last three days there have been 31 deaths from floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in the country." Also, "43 people are missing," she added.
"It is still raining in many places. We are still collecting data from the terrain. The death toll could increase," she warned.
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