IMD has attributed the rise in rainfall to a depression over Bangladesh. IMD has issued red and yellow alerts in Assam and Meghalaya throughout this week.
Torrential rainfall across states in North-East India have triggered landslides, inundation, flash and urban floods in the past week as the India Meteorological Department(IMD) issued warnings of heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places for the next seven days. At least 28 people have died in rain related accidents across the region.
IMD has attributed the rise in rainfall to a depression over Bangladesh, which as per the department moved north-northeast wards and weakened into a well marked low pressure area over Meghalaya on May 30. It further weakened into a low pressure area over northeast Assam yesterday. However, the associated cyclonic circulation lies over Arunachal Pradesh in lower tropospheric levels.
Seven people died after a vehicle veered off into a gorge due to a landslide on the National Highway 13 in Arunachal Pradesh바카라™s East Kameng district on Friday. In another landslide-related incident, two people were killed in the Lower Subansiri district, The Indian Express reported.
Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya have reported at least eight deaths over the past 24 hours, owing to heavy downpour, flash floods and landslides.
In Assam, the Chief Minister바카라™s office released an advisory, urging people to take precautions, stay vigilant and follow official advisories. In Guwahati city, heavy rainfall caused severe waterlogging, with the government also warning of possible tree felling and localized landslides. Nine districts in the state have a flood warning, as per Assam State Disaster Management Authority.
IMD has issued red and yellow alerts in Assam and Meghalaya throughout this week. Eight people have been killed in Assam as incessant rainfall caused massive inundation in 17 districts, as per PTI. Over 78,000 people are affected.
Reportedly, incessant rains also triggered a mudslide that buried several homes and killed five people in Bonda, three of whom - a mother-daughter duo and a niece - were of a single family, as per media reports. Additionally, two people died in Golaghat and one in Lakhimpur due to floods on Saturday. Schools and colleges remained shut in Guwahati and Kamrup district.
Mizoram바카라™s government said that four houses collapsed and roads were blocked by landslides caused by an accompanying earthquake. Three homes were destroyed in P&E Veng, four families displaced, and four roadblocks reported. One person died in a landslide in Serchhip town.
Four people, including three Myanmarese refugees, were also killed when multiple houses collapsed due to landslides triggered by heavy rain on Saturday, taking the toll in the current spate of downpour to five, PTI reported. A 37-year-old man had died after a wall collapsed on a labourers' camp in the wake of heavy rain in the state바카라™s Aizawl district.
1,500 tourists remain stranded in Sikkim, with landslides and inundation reported from across the state. A vehince fell into the flooded Teesta river in Mangan district on Thursday night. One person was killed in the incident, two injured, and the search for eight others has been called off and heavy rainfall continue.
A truck driver while travelling from Jharnapani to Chumoukedima in Nagaland died due to a rock fall incident on Pagala Pahar in New Chumoukedima on NH 29, media reported.