India
oi-Deepika S
Mumbai, July 23: As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, after the state witnessed a frightening spate of rain on Friday, even as rescue operations by the military and NDRF are ongoing.
While 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state, officials said.
The deceased included 38 people who perished in a landslide in a village in the coastal Raigad district’s Mahad tehsil on Thursday, a senior official from the state disaster management department PTI.
Eleven people, including eight Nepalese workers, were rescued in the nick of time before the bus in which they were traveling was swept away in a flooded river in Western Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district on early Friday morning, police said.
”The death toll in Maharashtra in the last 48 hours has reached 129. Most…