Death Toll from Ongoing Monsoon Season in Northern India Rises to 104 - The State Signal

Death Toll from Ongoing Monsoon Season in Northern India Rises to 104

ByThe State Signal Newsdesk

INDIA – The current death toll in the ongoing rains from the monsoon season in Northern India have risen to 104 as of Wednesday.

According to Emergency Operations Center, at least 189 people have been injured and 35 remain missing due to heavy rains that lashed state of Himachal Pradesh over the past few weeks.

Among the casualties, 15 died due to cloudbursts, eight died because of flash floods, while others were killed by causes such as road accidents and drowning.

Monsoon rains begin in India mostly in June and culminate in September.

Emergency Center added that heavy rains also killed at least 22,690 animals and poultry.

With the state witnessing massive damages, the elected government has now approached the federal government for assistance.

“We have demanded a special relief package for the state,” state’s Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said after meeting Indian Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday in the national capital Delhi.

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