India: dozens dead and missing after torrential rains
Helpers looking for the missing after a house collapsed in India on July 18, 2021. REUTERS - NIHARIKA KULKARNI
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At least 76 people have died in incidents linked to monsoon rains in western India, according to a report by local authorities released on Saturday.
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Indian rescuers searched Saturday, July 24 in mud and debris to try to find survivors after landslides and floods that killed at least 76 people in the west of the country. "
Torrential rains have often coincided with heavy tides and the release of large volumes of water from pressurized dams
," said the government of Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital. These bad weather
caused landslides,
floods and landslides of various buildings.
Relief operations, led by the Navy and the Air Force, are still ongoing but are made difficult
by floods and landslides
.
Several roads are cut like the highway between Bombay and Goa.
Red alert
The western state of Maharashtra recorded its highest level of July rains in nearly 40 years, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for days and threatening to overflow the great rivers.
This is particularly the case in Chiplun where more than 24 hours of uninterrupted intense precipitation brought the Vashishti River out of its bed.
Entire neighborhoods of the locality 250 km from Bombay were drowned under 3.5 meters of water.
The red alert was declared by the state meteorological department, specifying that the heavy rains are expected to continue in the coming days.
(With
AFP
)
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