A travel influencer died after falling into a gorge while shooting a video near the Kumbhe waterfalls in the Mangaon district of Raigad on Wednesday, police said.
The Kerala Cabinet granted Rs. 10 lakh as a compensation from the Chief Minister's Relief Funds to Christopher Joy's mother today.Joy was a municipal corporation worker who tragically died while cleaning the Amayizhanjan canal in Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram.
An unfortunate incident has happened under the Mohana police station area in the district where two siblings, a brother aged 5 years old and his younger sister aged three years old, were found drowned in the pit, police said.
The situation in Assam worsened after 8 people including three children died after drowning in flood waters in the state in the last 24 hours and the death toll in this year's flood mounted to 66.
The Water level at Pasighat and Dibrugarh is below the danger level while at Numaligarh, Nimatighat, Tezpur and Dhansirimukh, it is still above the danger level.
Amid the prevailing flood situation in Assam, 17 animals, including rhino calf and hog deer, have drowned in the submerged Kaziranga National Park, while 72 have been rescued by the forest authorities, an official said.