by Neu -Delhi (Reuters) flooding across North India killed at least five people on Wednesday, according to the officials, with the expected thunderstorms and the local media report that 10,000 people were evacuated by the river banks in the capital Delhi.
The monsoons in India was particularly intense this year, in August alone at least 130 people in northern India, the villages wiped out and the infrastructure destroyed.
The latest round of floods met Northern Jammu and Kashmir, Himacal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab, where the rivers Chenab and Tawi have increased in several places.
The swollen rivers have triggered landslides and damaged many streets, causing parts of the mountainous regions of Jammu and Himachal to trigger the rest of India.
At least five people were killed on Wednesday after landslide Rajouri and Mandi beat districts in Jammu and Himachal Pradesh, officials said.
The Indian meteorological department warned on Wednesday of severe to very heavy rain, with further downpours expected in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The Central Water Commission said that the swollen Yamuna violated her danger on Tuesday in Delhi.
Local media reported that almost 10,000 people were evacuated as a precaution for those who live in low -lying areas, to auxiliary camps along the main streets along the main streets.
The residents who lived along the Yamuna in Delhi were also evacuated in 2023 after the flood had entered their houses and the river reached its highest level for 45 years.
Many tourist places in Himachal Pradesh have been affected by landslides in the past few weeks when raging rivers damaged the infrastructure.
Educational institutions were closed, the authorities said and asked people to stay inside due to flood warnings.
In neighboring Punjab, the government said that 30 people have been killed since August 1 and almost 20,000 were evacuated.
The government said that water, which was due to the levels in India’s bread basket, Punjab State, has destroyed 150,000 hectares on Tuesday.
The continuous rain caused the authorities to release water from dams, which has caused floods in the levels in India and Pakistan in the past few days.
On the other side of the border, the Pakistani authorities issued a warning for further floods in the province of Punjab on Wednesday, after India warned that it would release water downstream from its dams, said officials.
Neu -Delhi previously gave four such warnings to Islamabad, the officials said.
The worst floods in Punjab have killed at least 43 people in Punjab, although more than 3.3 million have been affected since August 26, said the Provincial Disaster Management Authority.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority, the number of fatalities in the whole country since the beginning of the monsoon season at the end of June is 881.
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta in Neu -Delhi, Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar, Jaspreet Singh in Patiala and Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore; Editor of Saad Sayeed)
