Tag: flash floods

  • Death Toll Rises to 11 in Himachal Pradesh Flash Floods, Over 40 Still Missing |

    The death toll from the flash floods caused by cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh has risen to 11, following the discovery of two additional bodies in Mandi district. More than 40 individuals remain missing after cloudbursts struck Kullu’s Nirmand, Sainj, and Malana, as well as Mandi’s Padhar and Shimla’s Rampur subdivision on the night of July 31, causing widespread destruction.

    Officials reported the recovery of the bodies of 23-year-old Sonam and three-month-old Manvi from Rajbhan village in the Padhar area of Mandi district. Rescue operations continue, utilizing sniffer dogs, drones, and other equipment to find those still missing.

    Teams comprising 410 rescuers from the Army, NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, CISF, Himachal Pradesh Police, and home guards are conducting the search. In the Samej village of Gram panchayat Sarpara in the Rampur subdivision, over 30 people are reported missing. With the reduction in water flow, machinery has now reached the areas where the missing individuals are believed to be located, according to Up-pradhan Sarpara C L Negi.

    The state government has announced immediate relief of Rs 50,000 for the affected families and will provide Rs 5,000 monthly for rent over the next three months, in addition to supplying gas, food, and other essentials. Since the monsoon began on June 27, the state has incurred losses amounting to Rs 662 crore, with 79 lives lost to rain-related incidents, as reported by the state emergency operation centre.

  • Rains proceed to lash Punjab, Haryana; Military help sought in Patiala

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Rains battered portions of Punjab and Haryana for the 3rd consecutive day on Monday with government operating round-the-clock to succeed in out to folks within the worst-hit puts in hours of disaster.

    Consistent with the meteorological division, it’s been raining in lots of portions of Punjab and Haryana since morning.

    In view of the present scenario led to because of incessant rains, Haryana Leader Minister Manohar Lal Khattar cancelled all his pre-scheduled programmes for the day and summoned an emergency assembly of senior officers of more than a few departments, together with House, Crisis Control and City Native Our bodies, officers mentioned.

    Khattar can also be preserving a gathering with deputy commissioners later within the day thru video-conferencing, they mentioned.

    READ MORE: Delhi submerged as torrential rain continues on Day 2

    Government have already ordered the closure of faculties in some affected spaces in Punjab and Haryana.

    As torrential rains battered a number of portions of Punjab, Military help used to be sought by means of the Patiala district management after water overflowed from the Sutlej Yamuna Hyperlink (SYL) canal in Rajpura the city following a breach.

    The Military has been placed on alert in every other portions of Punjab, officers mentioned.

    In Rajpura, water entered a personal medical institution and the sufferers have been shifted to 2 different hospitals, they mentioned. In some puts in Punjab, there have been breaches in distributaries and minor canals.

    A boulevard canine close to a waterlogged street all over monsoon rain close to Yamuna Bazar space, in New Delhi (Picture | PTI)

    Fields have been inundated at many puts in Punjab and portions of Haryana inflicting crop harm. Tracts of land close to Sutlej and Ghaggar river have been inundated.

    ALSO READ: As rains lash India, IMD problems pink alert in Himachal Pradesh, flood alert for 2 Jammu districts

    In some puts in Punjab, water gushed into homes and in a couple of puts, folks have been evacuated to more secure puts.

    The heavy monsoon downpour persevered to result in visitors snarls on key street stretches within the two states, the officers mentioned.

    Punjab Director Basic of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav had previous mentioned in depth preparations were made to care for any more or less exigency bobbing up out of doable floods.

    A number of groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Power (NDRF) have additionally been deployed within the flood-ravaged districts, together with Mohali, Rupnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.

    Colleges have additionally been ordered to stay close on Monday in some worst-affected districts of Punjab and Haryana, together with Rupnagar, Mohali, Patiala, Ambala and Panchkula.

    ALSO READ | 13 killed as rains, flash floods lash U’khand, HP

    Within the wake of a flood-like scenario because of incessant rains in different portions of the state, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann had on Sunday directed the entire cupboard ministers, MLAs and officers to stick alert and succeed in out to folks in want.

    Flood keep watch over rooms were arrange in the entire districts of Punjab to lend a hand the folk in hours of disaster.

    Helpline numbers were publicised and officers were appointed round-the-clock in those keep watch over rooms to serve the folk, an legitimate remark mentioned.

    Owing to the heavy rains, the water stage of the Yamuna river at Hathini Kund Barrage is continuously expanding, because of which individuals of low-lying spaces adjoining to Yamuna were requested to keep away from the riverbank, the officers mentioned.

    On Monday at 8 am, 2.79 lakh cusecs of water have been discharged from the barrage, they mentioned.

    In Punjab’s Rupnagar, Siswan Nadi breached close to Kamalpur, the officers mentioned.

    Rains lashed Chandigarh, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra, amongst different puts in Haryana whilst Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Rupnagar and Patiala in Punjab additionally gained showers.

    Because of incessant rains within the catchment spaces of the Sukhna Lake right here, two of the floodgates have been opened on Sunday, the officers mentioned.

    CHANDIGARH: Rains battered portions of Punjab and Haryana for the 3rd consecutive day on Monday with government operating round-the-clock to succeed in out to folks within the worst-hit puts in hours of disaster.

    Consistent with the meteorological division, it’s been raining in lots of portions of Punjab and Haryana since morning.

    In view of the present scenario led to because of incessant rains, Haryana Leader Minister Manohar Lal Khattar cancelled all his pre-scheduled programmes for the day and summoned an emergency assembly of senior officers of more than a few departments, together with House, Crisis Control and City Native Our bodies, officers mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Khattar can also be preserving a gathering with deputy commissioners later within the day thru video-conferencing, they mentioned.

    READ MORE: Delhi submerged as torrential rain continues on Day 2

    Government have already ordered the closure of faculties in some affected spaces in Punjab and Haryana.

    As torrential rains battered a number of portions of Punjab, Military help used to be sought by means of the Patiala district management after water overflowed from the Sutlej Yamuna Hyperlink (SYL) canal in Rajpura the city following a breach.

    The Military has been placed on alert in every other portions of Punjab, officers mentioned.

    In Rajpura, water entered a personal medical institution and the sufferers have been shifted to 2 different hospitals, they mentioned. In some puts in Punjab, there have been breaches in distributaries and minor canals.

    A boulevard canine close to a waterlogged street all over monsoon rain close to Yamuna Bazar space, in New Delhi (Picture | PTI)

    Fields have been inundated at many puts in Punjab and portions of Haryana inflicting crop harm. Tracts of land close to Sutlej and Ghaggar river have been inundated.

    ALSO READ: As rains lash India, IMD problems pink alert in Himachal Pradesh, flood alert for 2 Jammu districts

    In some puts in Punjab, water gushed into homes and in a couple of puts, folks have been evacuated to more secure puts.

    The heavy monsoon downpour persevered to result in visitors snarls on key street stretches within the two states, the officers mentioned.

    Punjab Director Basic of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav had previous mentioned in depth preparations were made to care for any more or less exigency bobbing up out of doable floods.

    A number of groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Power (NDRF) have additionally been deployed within the flood-ravaged districts, together with Mohali, Rupnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.

    Colleges have additionally been ordered to stay close on Monday in some worst-affected districts of Punjab and Haryana, together with Rupnagar, Mohali, Patiala, Ambala and Panchkula.

    ALSO READ | 13 killed as rains, flash floods lash U’khand, HP

    Within the wake of a flood-like scenario because of incessant rains in different portions of the state, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann had on Sunday directed the entire cupboard ministers, MLAs and officers to stick alert and succeed in out to folks in want.

    Flood keep watch over rooms were arrange in the entire districts of Punjab to lend a hand the folk in hours of disaster.

    Helpline numbers were publicised and officers were appointed round-the-clock in those keep watch over rooms to serve the folk, an legitimate remark mentioned.

    Owing to the heavy rains, the water stage of the Yamuna river at Hathini Kund Barrage is continuously expanding, because of which individuals of low-lying spaces adjoining to Yamuna were requested to keep away from the riverbank, the officers mentioned.

    On Monday at 8 am, 2.79 lakh cusecs of water have been discharged from the barrage, they mentioned.

    In Punjab’s Rupnagar, Siswan Nadi breached close to Kamalpur, the officers mentioned.

    Rains lashed Chandigarh, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra, amongst different puts in Haryana whilst Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Rupnagar and Patiala in Punjab additionally gained showers.

    Because of incessant rains within the catchment spaces of the Sukhna Lake right here, two of the floodgates have been opened on Sunday, the officers mentioned.

  • IAF rescues two from flashfloods in Kathua

    By way of PTI

    JAMMU:  Indian Air Power group of workers rescued two individuals trapped in flash-floods in river Ujh in Kathua district on Monday night time, officers stated.

    After you have data that two individuals at the side of dozen of animals had been trapped within the river, the military and district management introduced a rescue operation, they stated.

    The management referred to as for IAF choppers, who speedily introduced a rescue operation, they stated.

    Then again, the animals had been washed away within the flash-floods, they stated.

    JAMMU:  Indian Air Power group of workers rescued two individuals trapped in flash-floods in river Ujh in Kathua district on Monday night time, officers stated.

    After you have data that two individuals at the side of dozen of animals had been trapped within the river, the military and district management introduced a rescue operation, they stated.

    The management referred to as for IAF choppers, who speedily introduced a rescue operation, they stated.

    Then again, the animals had been washed away within the flash-floods, they stated.

  • Flash flood kills no less than 21 other folks in southern Iran

    No less than 21 other folks had been killed in flash floods led to via heavy rains in Iran’s southern province of Fars.

    A rescue helicopter situated at the financial institution of a river, after flooding led to via heavy rainfall in southern Iran’s Estahban county (Picture: AFP)

    Flash floods in Iran’s drought-stricken southern Fars province have killed no less than 21 other folks, state tv stated Saturday.

    Heavy rains swelled the Roudbal river via the town of Estahban, consistent with the town’s governor, Yousef Karegar.

    Karegar stated rescue groups had stored 55 individuals who had been trapped via the flash flooding, however no less than six other folks had been nonetheless lacking.

    Flooding hit greater than 10 villages within the province, he added.

    Iran’s inside minister, Ahmad Vahidi, shared his condolences with the households of the flood sufferers, state tv later reported.

    Iran’s meteorology division had warned about in all probability heavy seasonal rainfall around the nation this is going through a decades-long drought blamed on local weather trade. The risks of flash flooding have additionally been exacerbated via the standard building of structures and roads close to riverbeds.

    In March 2018, a flash flood in Fars province led to the loss of life of 44 other folks.

    READ | China flash floods go away no less than 12 useless, 1000’s evacuated

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