Image capture of video by It’s tomorrow News via YouTube Account - At least 22 people dead and more than 170,000 were forced to leave their homes as torrential rain in India triggered multiple flash floods
- In Madhya Pradesh, twenty people were killed and around 70,000 people were left homeless
- In Assam, a state in northeastern India, two people died and more than 100,000 people were forced to leave their homes and relocated to higher ground
NEW DELHI, India – At least 22 people dead and more than 170,000 were forced to leave their homes as torrential rain in India triggered multiple flash floods, officials revealed on Monday.
The Indian Express mentioned in their article that forecasters predicted that rain won’t stop as more downpours are expected in the coming days, despite recording a 35 percent above average rainfall in the week that ended on July 6.
India, being an agriculture country like the Philippines, needed monsoon rains for their crops, however, the heavy rains regularly bring death and destruction. In the central state of Madhya Pradesh, twenty people were killed and around 70,000 people were left homeless as water from the Narmada river overflows and flooded the streets in dangerous level.
Firemen and volunteers roam around the thigh-deep water to help evacuate women and children in flooded villages while rescue teams used inflatable boats to reach people stranded in urban areas.
“Thousands of people will be evacuated today. We are working on a war footing mode to set up relief camps,” said Basant Singh, the home secretary from Bhopal.
“The health department is distributing medicines to prevent an outbreak of water-borne diseases.”
Stormy weather also ravaged parts of the remote northeast,” Singh said as quoted by an article of Reuters published by GMA News.
Two more people died in Assam a state in northeastern India known for its wildlife, archeological sites and tea plantations. Officials from Assam also revealed that more than 100,000 people were forced to leave their homes and relocated to higher ground.
The continuous rain also swelled up the Brahmaputra River into what officials said to be dangerous levels.
Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam Chief Minister, ordered officials to distribute food, clothing and medicines to people who could not return to their homes.
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