This event comes just a month after a similar tragic accident where five passengers drowned when a car, en route from Mailsi to Multan for a wedding, was submerged in a canal.
A bus from Chennai MTC was completely stuck in an underpass in Moolakkothalam. However, after several efforts by the corporation workers and the transport department, it was later removed from the location.
The Chhath puja concluded in Nepal, with many women making offerings to the sun upon sunrise, while submerging at the Bagmati River, marking the end of four days of arduous fasting.
The district administration is on alert mode and has made necessary arrangements for the safety of the people. The administration also urged the residents to avoid visiting waterlogged spots in the district.
SDRF (State Disaster Response Fund) team, Home Guard jawans, and Municipal Corporation employees are deployed at Ramghat for the security of the people.
More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said. This comes after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and bridges and left whole villages submerged, CNN reported.
These dewatering trucks with high-capacity suction pumps have been brought in by the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) to deal with any contingency like the one recently, where the area in and around the Raj Ghat and ITPO were submerged after heavy rains.
Water gushed into homes in Assam's Morigaon district after flooding from an overflowing Brahmaputra river submerged several villages amid incessant rainfall in several parts of the state.
The Baba Garib Nath Temple has been submerged after the water level of the Bhakra Dam on Saturday reached close to the danger mark at 1,670 feet in the Una district, said the officials.
"Today, SDRF team was informed by District Disaster Management, Rudrapur that due to excessive waterlogging in Kashipur area many houses have been flooded in which many people are trapped for whose rescue SDRF is needed," said officials said.