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Heavy rain lashes North India

Normal life thrown out of gear, roads severely damaged

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Fun?: School children wading through a water-logged street in Allahabad on Friday following two days of heavy rain in the city.

Chandigarh: Several parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on Friday received rains accumulating waters in the low-lying areas. Sonepat city had received around 306 mm rain during the past four days, met office said.

A scooterist was killed when he fell down from it after hitting with a stone lying in the rain water in old Housing Board colony in Sonepat last night, a report said.

Intermittent rain lashing the region has thrown normal life out of gear and made residents face multifarious problems.

Fields inundated

Apart from flooding of various streets and roads, the recent spell of rain also severely damaged the roads and other roads connecting various town’s to other district. Hundreds of acres of agricultural fields in a number of villages of Sonepat district have been inundated by rain water. Water-logging in fields has affected standing crops of paddy, sugarcane, jowar and bajra. In some villages, rain water also accumulated in schools due to which studies were affected.

Wall collapse

Sirsa: A five-year-old was buried alive when the wall of her house in village Mehna Khera under Dabwali Sadar police station limits suddenly collapsed following rains, police said on Friday. Pooja died on the spot and her body has been handed over to relatives without post mortem following intervention of the local tehsildar, they said.

Sirsa town was not spared its usual water-logging woes. All tall claims of the district administration regarding its preparations to drain rainwater stood fully exposed after a two-hour shower on Friday left the town flooded.

Traffic jam

Vehicular traffic on various roads came to a halt and many scooters and motorcycles went out of order.

In some of the localities like Hisariabazaar and PNB Street, rainwater entered houses and shops. Most marketplaces are still under knee-deep water even after three hours of cessation of rains.

The worst hit areas are B Block including CMK College Road, GRG School Road, Bal Bhawan Road, Hisar Road, Shiv Chowk, Inderpuri Mohalla, Govt Senior School Road, Anaj Masndi, Suratgarhia Bazaar, Ghantaghar Chowk, Agar Sain Mohalla, Old Court Road, Goldiggi Chowk and Kirtinagar Mohalla.

Situation improves

Patna: There was significant let up in the overall flood situation in Bihar in absence of rains with water level of all the major rivers, excepting Bagmati and Kosi, receding below the danger mark.

Central Water Commission sources said, though Kosi was flowing 47 cm above the danger mark at Basua, the water level was likely to go down by tomorrow morning. Similarly, Bagmati was flowing just 18 cm above the danger level at Benibad in Bihar. Water levels of all other major rivers, including Ganga, Burhi Gandak, Ghaghra, Gandak, Mahananda and Adhwara group of rivers, maintained a receding trend, they said.

According to official report, over six lakh people have been affected by floods in over 820 villages spread over 13 districts -- Patna, Vaishali, Nalanda, Khagaria, Muzaffarpur, Sheikhpura, West Champaran, Araria, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnea, Darbhanga and Katihar. Thirty-nine people are reported to have lost their lives in boat mishaps, snake-bites and drowning in the recent spell of flood that have destroyed standing crops, private and public property worth over Rs 2 crore, it said. -- PTI

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