More than 100 people died in India and Nepal victims of floods and landslides after several days of heavy rains, which destroyed houses and roads, informed on Wednesday (20) the authorities of both countries, who also cited several missing.
On Wednesday, the official balance in India was 85 dead and 11 missing. Nepal has 31 fatalities and 43 missing.
India’s weather service has raised the alert level, forecasting “heavy” or “very heavy” rains in the region over the next two days.
In some regions, more than 400 mm of rain was recorded on Monday.
In northern India’s Uttarakhand state, official sources announced 46 north and 11 people were missing. The state of Kerala (south) has a balance of 39 deaths.
Of the victims in Uttarakhand, at least 30 died at dawn on Tuesday in seven incidents in the worst-affected Nainital district, following landslides and the collapse of several buildings.
Five victims were from the same family, whose house was buried by a landslide, a senior local government official, Pradeep Jain, told AFP.
In the district of Almora (north), the collapse of a mud wall with large rocks destroyed a house and killed the five residents.
With the weather alert, authorities ordered the closing of schools and banned all religious and tourist activities in the state.
Television stations and videos posted on social media show images of residents walking in knee-deep water near Lake Nainital, a tourist attraction in the region, and the Ganges River near Rishikesh.
More than 100 tourists were blocked at Ramgarh station as a result of the flood of the Kosi River, which flooded several locations.
The floods nearly dragged an elephant near the Corbett Tiger Reserve, home to 164 cats and 600 elephants, but the pachyderm managed to brave the current and swim to safety, according to a video that went viral on social media.
– Balance may increase –
In neighboring Nepal, Humkala Pandey, an official in the disaster management department, said that “in the past three days we have recorded 31 deaths from floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in the country.”
“In addition, 43 people are missing,” he added.
“It’s still raining in many spots. And we’re still compiling the data. The balance of deaths could increase”, he warned.
Landslides are a common danger in the Himalayas, but experts say they are increasingly common as glaciers melt and rains become more erratic.
Specialists also attribute the phenomena to the construction of hydroelectric dams and deforestation.
In February, a flash flood devastated a valley in Uttarakhand state, killing nearly 200 people. The same region recorded 5,700 deaths in a similar situation in 2013.
The country’s meteorological agency also warns of more rain in Kerala.
Many reservoirs in the southern state of the country have almost reached the alert level and authorities are moving thousands of residents to safe areas due to the flooding of some rivers. More than 200 houses were destroyed and nearly 1,400 damaged.
In 2018, at least 500 people died in this coastal region in the most severe flooding in a century.
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