Rain lashes Uttarakhand, two killed

Heavy rain lashed several parts of the country on Saturday, triggering landslides in Himachal Pradesh, where three persons died, while two deaths were reported from Uttarakhand.

Odisha also received widespread rain and there is a warning of more downpour.

In Himachal Pradesh, landslides blocked about 170 roads, including the Shimla-Kalka National Highway, and resulted in the death of three people — one in Mandi and two in Theog.

About 20 houses, three shops and 15 cowsheds were badly damaged due to heavy rain in Bilaspur, Kangra, Chamba and Mandi, according to the state Emergency Response Control Room.

A 30-year-old woman and her son (8) were killed in their sleep when slush from an adjoining field gushed into their home following heavy rain in the early hours of Saturday in Uttarakhand’s Lansdowne area. Heavy rain over the past two days in Pauri district have claimed several lives with five people killed in separate rain-related incidents near Kotdwar on Saturday.

It was a sultry day in Delhi with the maximum and the minimum temperature settling at 34.9 and 27.1 degrees Celsius, respectively. The humidity oscillated between 81 and 55%. Most of the places over north and interior Odisha have received heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours. The chief amounts of rainfall recorded are Jagatsinghpur (11 cm), Baripada (10 cm) and Jaipur (9 cm).

Monsoon remained normal in Bihar during the past 24 hours, with light to moderate rainfall occurring in many places in the state.

Gaya recorded the highest rainfall at 30 mm among the major cities, followed by 3 mm rainfall in Bhagalpur and 1.4 mm in Patna in the past 24 hours (recorded between 8.30 am on Friday to 8.30 am on Saturday). The absence of rainfall in Patna increased the maximum temperature from Friday's 30.2 degrees Celsius to 35 degrees Celsius on Saturday with the humidity level at around 80% both in the morning and evening.

Chandigarh recorded maximum temperature of 34.5 degrees Celsius. In Haryana, Ambala and Karnal recorded their respective maximums at 35.5 and 33.4 degrees Celsius, respectively.