The number of people who died in the landslides that struck the hilly areas of Meppadi in Wayanad district on Tuesday following incessant rainfall has gone up to 167, the Kerala Revenue Department said today.
The number of people who died in the landslides that struck the hilly areas of Meppadi in Wayanad district on Tuesday following incessant rainfall has gone up to 158, the Kerala Revenue Department said today.
After the devastating landslide in Kerala's Wayanad district that claimed the lives of several people, Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that they will not be able to visit Wayanad due to extreme weather conditions and incessant rains.
Coffee growers in Karnataka have incurred 60 per cent yield losses after heavy rains lashed and damaged plantations in the coffee heartlands of the state.
Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who had visited Karnataka's Sakleshpur which was affected by a landslide following incessant rainfall, expressed his dissatisfaction and claimed there were several technical snags in the ongoing work on the Hassan-Mangaluru national highway.
The vehicle movement on the National Highway has been stopped for an indefinite period as restoration work is underway following the landslide triggered by incessant rain.
The IMD issued an orange alert for 8 districts and a flash flood warning for four districts in Himachal Pradesh on Friday due to continuous rainfall in the last 24 hours. A yellow alert has been issued in most parts of the state on Saturday.
The Indian Army has been actively involved in extensive flood relief operations in the villages of Sivaguri (Dhemaji District, Assam) and Village Mer (East Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh) in the Pasighat Region, which has been severely affected by incessant rains since June 29.
Following incessant rainfall in the past few days, a flood situation has been prevailing in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. According to the park official, the water level has risen significantly and inundated 167 camps.
Incessant rain killed at least eight people, injured 24 and damaged 300 mud houses between Friday and Saturday, lashing different areas of Balochistan.