India deplores at least 85 dead, and Nepal 31. This assessment could further increase while the torrential rains that occur after the monsoon continues in both countries.
Le Monde with AFP
The balance sheet continues to increase. At least 116 people died in India and Nepal, swept away by floods and landslides triggered by several days of heavy rains, announced the authorities, Wednesday, October 20. Dozens of other people are missing.
India deplores at least 85 victims. In Uttarakhand (North), at least 46 people are dead in recent days and eleven are missing. Also, in the coastal state of Kerala (South), the leader of the local government, Pinarayi Vijayan, has advanced a local balance of 39 dead.
At least thirty of them were killed on Tuesday, in the district particularly affected by Nainital, in a series of landslides and infrastructure collapse caused by a gigantic deluge. Five members of the same family have been buried in their house, a local manager, Prateek Jain said.
in Nepal, the balance sheet “can further increase”
In Nepal Neighbor, the person responsible for disaster management in the government, Humkala Pandey estimated that “in the last three days floods and slips of ground caused by the heavy post-monsoon rains made 31 dead throughout the country “. “Forty-three people are missing,” she added. “It’s still raining in many places,” she later clarified, fearing that “the number of deaths [can] further increase”.
More than two hundred people had already divered last February during floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, particularly exposed to floods.