Vadodara Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohan Anand on Wednesday said that nine people have died and nine others have been rescued following the collapse of a slab on the Gambhira bridge in the Padra area of Gujarat's Vadodara district.
Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli visited flood-hit Rasuwa District after a Bhotekoshi River flood left 7 dead and 18 missing. He assessed damage, met rescue teams, and urged faster relief efforts. Key infrastructure, including a bridge and highway, was damaged, and 55 people have been rescued so far.
Just before his death, Dhirendra sent a desperate message to his brother on WhatsApp, saying, "Bhaiya, I'm stuck in the lift...I can't breathe... please save me." He also made calls pleading for help, but was not rescued in time.
According to officials, the incident took place on June 25, when the four fishermen -- N Nambu Prakash (23), N Nambu Gunalan (25), K Nambu (24), and S Sathyaraj (24), all residents of Puthuroda in the Rameswaram island area -- ventured out to fish in the Gulf of Mannar in a traditional count
This morning, the SDRF Dakpatthar team received information that some workers were stranded in the river near Badhwala Sadhna Kendra Ashram. On receiving the information, the SDRF team immediately left for the site of the incident and rescued the trapped workers.
Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, CPRO of Northeast Frontier Railway said that, a total of 22 minors along with 3 men and 2 women were rescued from various railway stations of NFR by RPF during that period.
The incessant rainfall and a series of cloudbursts and flash floods have devastated parts of Himachal Pradesh over the past 19 hours, leaving five people dead, 16 missing and causing extensive damage to infrastructure and property. According to the Himachal Pradesh State Emergency Operation
The worst-hit district is Mandi, where all five casualties and the highest number of missing persons - 16 - were reported. Eleven people remain stranded, and several more have been evacuated from flood-affected zones. A total of 278 individuals were rescued from Mandi, the HP-SEOC confirmed.
The incident occurred after four children went to bathe in the River Yamuna earlier in the day. While two of them were rescued, the other two--both aged between 10 and 12 years--remained missing and are feared to have drowned.
Taking to social media, the police said, "Under the Kovali police station, 162 children stranded at Lav Kush Residential School due to heavy rainfall were successfully rescued by the Jamshedpur Police and handed over to their families."
"Noida: 42 elderly citizens were rescued from an illegal old-age home. They were found tied up, half-naked, confined in basement-like rooms. This is not an isolated case. This is a symptom of a national crisis," Manickam Tagore's 'X' post read.
According to officials, teams from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and local police rushed to the site and initiated relief and rescue operations immediately.