India's monsoon rains kill at least 30 in northeast
1 June 2025 10:44
GUWAHATI, INDIA (AFP)Flash floods and landslides after torrential monsoon rain over the last two days killed at least 30 people in India's northeast, officials said Sunday.State disaster management officials said eight people died in Assam, and nine in Arunachal Pradesh, many of them in landslides as earth loosened by the water slumped into the valley below.Another five people died in a landslide in the neighbouring state of Mizoram, state authorities said.The officials said that six people lost their lives in Meghalaya and at least two others were killed in the states of Nagaland and Tripura.A red alert warning was issued for several districts in the region after the non-stop downpour over the last three days.Rivers swollen by the lashing rain -- including the mighty Brahmaputra, which rises in the Himalayas and flows through India's northeast towards its delta in Bangladesh -- broke their banks across the region.The Indian army said that it had saved hundreds "in a massive rescue operation" across Manipur state."People have been shifted to safer places", the army said on Saturday. "Food, water and essential medicines were provided."Conrad K Sangma, the chief minister of Meghalaya state, has ordered officials to remain on high alert "especially in landslide-prone and low-lying areas", he said in a statement.Scores of people die each year during the rainy season due to flash floods and landslides across India, a country of 1.4 billion people.India's annual monsoon season from June to September offers respite from the intense summer heat and is crucial for replenishing water supplies, but also brings widespread death and destruction.South Asia is getting hotter and in recent years has seen shifting weather patterns, but scientists are unclear on how exactly a warming planet is affecting monsoons.
Last month, India's financial capital Mumbai was swamped by monsoon rain that began two weeks earlier than usual, the earliest for nearly a quarter of a century, according to weather forecasters.
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