Floods, landslides kill 15 in India, four in Nepal as rivers rise
Authorities said 10 workers were missing and 30 river-monitoring stations in India were in severe condition as heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides.
- Heavy rainfall triggered floods and landslides that killed 56 people in Uttar Pradesh and 12 in Nepal since Thursday, with 46 injured across the Indian state.
- Relief commissioner Hrishikesh Bhaskar Yashod reported that Uttar Pradesh registered 66.5mm of rain from Friday to Sunday, far exceeding the normal 7.6mm, as a depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified rainfall.
- Authorities warned of possible flash floods in 49 of Nepal's 77 districts as water levels rise, while flooding of the Rahuganga River damaged a 40-megawatt hydropower project, disrupting power and telecommunications.
- More than 70,000 people were evacuated in India's eastern state of Odisha after rivers rose due to heavy downpours, while the Central Water Commission reported 30 river-monitoring stations across seven states in a "severe situation."
- Rescue operations continue in waterlogged areas across the region, even as an avalanche buried the base camp of the 7,126-metre Himlung Himal in northern Nepal, leaving 10 local workers missing.
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- Diluvian rains and landslides caused at least 56 deaths in three days in north-eastern India, Uttar Pradesh State, and 14 in neighbouring Nepal. Deaths in India were recorded after "the exceptionally heavy rains that hit most of the country's most populous Uttar Pradesh." - Diluvian rains in Nepal and India: at least 70 deaths and thousands of victims (International).
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Authorities in Nepal and India have reported more than one hundred deaths following severe storms. Heavy rainfall led to floods and landslides.
AT LEAST 62 people have died in floods in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Rain has been falling continuously in the two Asian countries for days. The water masses trigger floods and landslides. In Nepal, a popular climbing season begins in autumn.
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