According to reports, at least 17 people died in heavy showers, floods and lightning in parts of Maharashtra with the Marathwada region bearing the brunt of rain fury. Meanwhile, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has rescued more than 560 stranded villagers, said, officials.
However, more than 200 cattle were washed away in the rain and a number of houses were severely damaged. The torrential rains that lashed Marathwada on Sunday and Monday, caused havoc in a region that is considered a perennially drought-plagued area.
As per an official statement, most of the deaths were reported from Marathwada and Vidarbha regions and also from North Maharashtra's Nashik district, the official said.
Of the total, deaths were reported from Yavatmal district (in Vidarbha), Beed, Osmanabad, Parbhani (Marathwada) and Jalna, Latur (Marathwada) and Buldhana (Vidarbha).
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast extremely heavy rains at a few places in Marathwada, Mumbai and other parts of the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra for Wednesday, September 29.
On Tuesday, September 28, amidst the Cyclone Gulab that weakening into a well-marked low-pressure area over western Vidarbha and its neighbourhood, heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy showers is very likely at isolated places in north Madhya Maharashtra and north Konkan on Wednesday, September 29.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams and choppers were deployed in parts of Marathwada to rescue stranded people. One team of the State Disaster Response Force has also been deployed in the Jalgaon district in North Maharashtra, the official said.
An NDRF team, a helicopter and boats were deployed on Tuesday to rescue people stranded in barrages, villages and on the banks of a river in the Latur district, which was lashed by heavy rains through the day.
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