Six die in flash floods in Gujarat; Delhi receives showers
PTI | 08:07 PM,Jul 27,2010New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) Monsoon tightened its grip over West Bengal today with incessant showers causing largescale inundation and disrupting rail services, while heavy downpours killed two more people in the north where major rivers are flowing close to the danger mark.In national capital Delhi, absence of any significant rainfall led to rise in temperatures with the maximum settling at 35.3 deg C and the minimum at 27.8 deg C, both the readings being two notches above the normal level for this time of the year, the MeT office said.The city recorded a high humidity of 87 per cent with little to no rainfall in the past 24 hours.Heavy rains paralysed life in Kolkata with low-lying areas getting water-logged and several other districts in south Bengal being put on high alert in view of forecasts for more rains in the next two days, officials said.A total of eight trains were either cancelled, rescheduled or short-terminated from the metropolis due to inundation on tracks, eastern railway sources said.Kolkata City received 142.9 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department's Kolkata centre said.In Uttar Pradesh, two more persons were killed in rain-related incidents in different districts of the state as major rivers including Ghaghra, Sharda and others continued to flow above the red mark.One person each were killed in Gonda and Fatehpur in separate incidents of wall collapse, officials said.According to a Central Water Commission report, Ghagra is flowing above the danger mark at Elgin Bridge (Barabanki), Ayodhya and Turtipar (Ballia), whereas Sharda was flowing above red mark at Pallia Kalan in Lakhimpur. Rapti is rising at Balrampur and Bardghat (Gorakhpur) but remains just below the danger mark.
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