Other states in India’s north east, including Meghalaya, Arunchal Pradesh and West Bengal have been flooded. In West Bengal, four people are dead and 11,000 homeless. There is also severe flooding in the country’s west in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, where heavy monsoonal rain and floods have killed an estimated 100 people.
In Maharashtra, the death toll has risen to 90, including 61 in the worst-affected district of Thane district, 50 km from Bombay. At the end of June, lightning strikes caused by monsoonal storms killed 23 people in Pune, 160km south-east of Bombay.
According to one state official, 60,000 families have been made homeless and rains have submerged farmlands in Maharashtra’s farming districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, depriving thousands of farmers of their crops. Key rail transport links in the Thane district has been disrupted by floods and will not be restored for days. Local officials explained that the district had received over five times its normal rainfall.
Flash floods also submerged villages and marooned over 4,000 people in neighbouring state of Gujarat . At least 75 people have been killed. Most of the deaths have been due to monsoon-related accidents, including lightning strikes, building collapses and flash floods. According to the state’s flood control department, “About 20,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas.”
In Maharashtra, the death toll has risen to 90, including 61 in the worst-affected district of Thane district, 50 km from Bombay. At the end of June, lightning strikes caused by monsoonal storms killed 23 people in Pune, 160km south-east of Bombay.
According to one state official, 60,000 families have been made homeless and rains have submerged farmlands in Maharashtra’s farming districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, depriving thousands of farmers of their crops. Key rail transport links in the Thane district has been disrupted by floods and will not be restored for days. Local officials explained that the district had received over five times its normal rainfall.
Flash floods also submerged villages and marooned over 4,000 people in neighbouring state of Gujarat . At least 75 people have been killed. Most of the deaths have been due to monsoon-related accidents, including lightning strikes, building collapses and flash floods. According to the state’s flood control department, “About 20,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas.”