One person was killed and four went missing after heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides in Arunachal Pradesh’s Keyi Panyor district, The Hindu reported on Thursday.
The flash floods occurred after heavy rainfall on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly around a project site of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited in the district’s Yazali circle.
The body of Nirmala Gupta, a teacher at the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited’s Vivekananda Kendriya Vidyalaya, was recovered during a search operation, Keyi Panyor Superintendent of Police Angad Mehta told the newspaper.
On Wednesday, the rain also triggered landslides along a national highway, disrupting traffic and leaving several commuters stranded.
Meanwhile, the southwest monsoon continued to advance in western and central India on Thursday, covering more parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, and the remaining regions of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
The India Meteorological Department said that conditions were favourable for the monsoon to advance further into Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the next three to four days.
The weather agency has forecast widespread rainfall in many parts of the country over the next week, including Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, eastern Uttar Pradesh, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and the North East.
The IMD has also warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall, ranging from 7 cm to 20 cm, along the west coast, across northeastern India, and in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the week.
In Tamil Nadu, the department has warned of heavy rainfall in Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Theni, Dindigul, Tenkasi, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Tiruvallur, Ranipet, Vellore, Kancheepuram and Tiruvannamalai, The Indian Express reported.
Fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea due to stormy weather conditions over the southwest Bay of Bengal.
Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.
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