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The flash floods also caused heavy rains in Solan and heavy rains in Shimla, Mandi and Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, submerging homes, sweeping away livestock, damaging crops and parked vehicles.
The state’s Emergency Operations Center said that as rain has lashed the state in the past 24 hours, several trees have fallen on the road, impeding vehicular movement on 126 roads in the state, including two national highways.
The Met Department has issued a weather warning for Himachal Pradesh for the next five days. “Heavy rains, thunderstorms and lightning are likely in isolated places over low and medium plains and hills on June 25 and 26. Flash floods are likely in Kangra, Mandi and Solan districts. Traffic congestion, poor visibility and interruption in electricity supply,” IMD said.
The agency has also issued a warning for the coastal region, including Mumbai and Madhya Maharashtra, which is likely to see heavy to very heavy rains in the next 48 hours.
Overall situations such as the low pressure area formed in the Bay of Bengal, the cyclonic circulation over the Kutch region of Gujarat, and the active basin spreading over Maharashtra to coastal Karnataka will result in heavy to very heavy rains in the next 48 hours over Konkan including The official said in Mumbai and Madhya Maharashtra.
After a long gap, the southwest monsoon is advancing rapidly and covering more and more areas, the official added.
The southwest monsoon advanced over Delhi and Mumbai on Sunday. While the rain bearing system hit Delhi two days earlier than scheduled, its entry into Mumbai was delayed by two weeks.
Meanwhile, more than 120 people have been rescued and shifted to safer places in Assam by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) which has deployed ten teams to carry out flood relief operations in the state. The flood has hit more than four Lac residents across nine districts of the state, though water levels began to fall on Sunday.
A total of ten teams have been deployed to Assam carrying out rescue and evacuation operations from low-lying areas. So far, 123 people and many livestock have been moved to safer places, an NDRF spokesperson said in an update released at 6:30pm.
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