Floods in south Punjab have displaced nearly 2.5 million people, killed 101, and devastated villages, though water is now receding, *Dawn* reported. Massive evacuation efforts, including 1,500 rescue boats, continue as relief teams supply food and medicine, with authorities declaring Jalalpu
The floods are creating a severe humanitarian crisis, inundating low-lying areas, displacing large populations, and destroying hundreds of acres of standing crops.
In an unfortunate incident, eight people were killed while 22 were injured after a truck hit a procession heading for the immersion of Lord Ganesh idol in Karnataka's Hassan district on Friday, as per officials.
An infant was among at least two people killed during drone strikes on several residential buildings in the Ukraine capital, which was under an air-raid siren for 11 hours.
"Six people died after a trolley carrying construction material for the ropeway in Pavagadh broke down," Panchamahal Deputy Superintendent of Police, Harsh Dudhaat said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday stated that 22 people, including four children, after Russia's barrage of missiles hit a residential building in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district on Wednesday night.
At least six people were killed in a road accident after a Karnataka RTC bus rammed into a waiting shed and an autorickshaw in the Thalappady area of Kasaragod on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Himachal Pradesh has suffered extensive loss of life and property during the ongoing monsoon season, with 310 people killed since June 20, according to the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA).
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday expressed condolences to the families of the eight people killed in the road accident in Bulandshahr, a press release said.
The SDMA said the monsoon death toll in the state has reached 224 -- with 116 people killed in rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, and house collapses, and 108 losing their lives in road accidents since the onset of the season.