Floods throughout the north of India killed at least five people on Wednesday, the authorities said, and more thunderstorms were expected and local media report that 10,000 people have been evacuated from the banks of the river in the capital Delhi.
The monsoon season in India has been particularly intense this year, killing at least 130 people only in August in northern India, eliminating villages and destroying infrastructure.
The last round of floods has reached the areas of northern Jammu and Cashmiro busy, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab, where the Chenab and Tawi rivers have increased above the danger brand at various points.
The swollen rivers have caused landslides and damaged many paths, disconnecting parts of the mountainous regions of Jammu and Himachal from the rest of India.
At least five people were killed today after land landslides mistreated the districts of Rajouri and Mandi in Jammu and Himachal Pradesh, respectively, authorities said.
The Department of Meteorology of India warned of a heavy to very heavy rain in the region today, with more downpours that are expected in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The Central Water Commission said that the Yamuna swollen had violated his danger mark a day ago in Delhi.
Local media reported that almost 10,000 people had been evacuated to relief camps established by the Government along the main roads as a precautionary measure for those who live in low areas.
The residents who live throughout the Yamuna in Delhi were evacuated in 2023 also after the waters of the floods entered their homes and the river reached its highest level in 45 years.
Many tourist places in Himachal Pradesh have been beaten by landslides in recent weeks, since furious rivers damaged the infrastructure.
The closed educational institutions were ordered, authorities said, asking people who remain indoors due to flood warnings.
In the neighbor Punjab of India, the government said that 30 people have been killed and almost 20,000 evacuated since August 1.
The water that springs through the plains in the state of bread of bread in India, the state of Punjab has destroyed 150,000 hectares of crops, said the government a day ago.
The continuous rain led the authorities to release water from the dams, which has caused floods in the plains of India and Pakistan in recent days.
On the other side of the border, the Pakistani authorities issued an alert for more floods in Punjab today after India warned that it would release water downstream from their dams, authorities said.
Nueva Delhi has previously given four warnings of this type to Islamabad, officials said.
The worst floods in four decades have killed at least 43 people in Punjab in Pakistan, with more than 3.3 million affected since August 26, said the Provincial Authority of Disaster Management.
The death toll through Pakistan since the beginning of the monsoon season at the end of June is 881, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
