At least 129 people have died in rains in Maharahstra in the past two days as the state continues to receive heavy rains. Among the dead are 38 people who were killed on Thursday in a landslide in Talai village in Raigad district. Meanwhile, floods swept several roads in the state.
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1) Senior officials from the Maharashtra Civil Protection Department said rain-related incidents have killed 129 people in the past 48 hours, a senior official from the state Civil Protection Department said Friday evening.
2) A landslide in Talai village in Maharashtras Raigad District killed 38 people on Thursday. Heavy rain over the past two days have caused flooding in parts of the coastal region and affected road and rail traffic. The death toll in three separate incidents of landslides in Mahad Tehsil, which occurred Thursday, is likely to rise, police said. While 32 bodies were found in one location in Talai, four more were recovered from another location in Sakarsutarwadi village. 15 people have reportedly been rescued so far, but it is feared that over 30 to 35 more are trapped under the rubble, officials say.
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3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday condoned the loss of life in the landslide in the Raigad coastal district of Maharashtra and announced a voluntary payment of Rs 2 lakh for the deceased’s next of kin. Modi said that due to the heavy rainfall, the situation in Maharashtra is being closely monitored and assistance will be provided to those affected.
PN arenarendramodi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh each from PMNRF for the next of kin of those who lost their lives in a landslide in Raigad, Maharashtra. Rs. 50,000 would be given to the injured.
– PMO India (@PMOIndia) July 23, 2021
4) It is feared that ten people were trapped in the coastal Ratnagiri district after a landslide, while eleven others on board a bus barely escaped when they were rescued just before the vehicle was washed into a river in the Kolhapur district.
The NDRF team is conducting rescue operations in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. (Photo credit: PTI).
5) The Indian Air Force Mi-17 helicopters rescued two people stranded in flooded areas in the Ratnagiri coastal district of Maharashtra on Friday, the defense said in a statement. The air force had their two Mi-17V5 and two Mi-17 helicopters ready for rescue missions in the region hit by heavy rains, it said.
6) The Maharashtra government announced a voluntary payment of Rs 5 lakh each to the relatives of the people who died in landslides caused by heavy rains in different parts of the state. The injured are being treated in hospitals at the expense of the state, a statement said.
7) The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has deployed seven Disaster Management Teams (DRTs) in the coastal districts of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka to rescue people in distress due to prolonged rainfall, an official statement said on Friday.
The Indian Air Force is conducting rescue operations in the Maharashtra Ratnagiri district. (Image credit: PTI)
8th) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued Red alert for six counties of Maharashtra. The weather department has forecasts extremely heavy rains for Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhu Gurg, Pune, Satara and Kolhapur.
9) Six teams from the Indian Army and Navy are expected to take part in the rescue work on Saturday morning. Up to 54 villages were completely affected by the flooding, while 821 were partially affected, officials said. In the Kolhapur district alone, up to 40,882 people were resettled from areas affected by the flooding.
10) Up to 84,452 people, including over 40,000 in Kolhapur district, were relocated to safer locations in the Pune division of west Maharashtra on Friday as rain struck the region and rivers poured, officials said. The Panchganga River near the city of Kolhapur flowed at higher levels than it did during the peak of the floods in 2019, officials said.
(With entries from PTI)
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