33 dead as heavy rains trigger landslides in several states including Himachal Pradesh

At least 22 people have been killed and eight others are reported missing in Himachal Pradesh where 34 incidents of landslides, flash floods, and cloudbursts have occurred in the last 24 hours, Chief Secretary RD Dhiman stated on Saturday.

Mandi, Kangra and Chamba districts are the worst affected districts from where maximum damage has been reported.

As many as 742 roads have been closed and 2000 distribution transformers, 172 water supply schemes have been disrupted in the state as reported by the Districts.

In Uttarakhand, four people were killed and 10 went missing owing to a series of cloudbursts. Thousands of people were evacuated from several villages as rivers breached the danger mark and washed away bridges.

Odisha, which is already reeling under floods with around 4.5 lakh people marooned in 500 villages, braced for more damage in this fresh spell of heavy rains. At least four people died in the death, officials reported.

The Odisha government has deployed rescue and relief teams in several districts, including Mayurbhanj, Kendrapara and Balasore. 70 people were rescued after a boat carrying them was swept away by strong currents in the flooded Mahanadi river on Saturday.

In Jharkhand, heavy rains uprooted scores of trees and electricity poles and submerged low-lying areas in several districts.

A woman died when a mud wall of her house caved in on her in West Singhbhum, while two people drowned in the swollen Nalkari river in the Ramgarh district.