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Toll increases to 180 in Maharastra after Rains
Nearly 180 people have died so far in rain-related deaths in Maharashtra in western-central India this year with fears that the tally may go up as the monsoon fury continued unabated in the country’s most industrialized state.
Several parts of the state received heavy downpour and tens of thousands of people were shifted to safe places by authorities.
According to government officials, over 250,000 people have been dislocated in 22 districts of the state in the past week.
Two Indian Army helicopters were in operation in Nashik to carry out rescue operations, Indo-Asian News Service quoted Brigadier P.B. Charak, director general (operations), Southern Command, as saying.
The army had at its disposal 20 helicopters to carry out relief operations in the flood-hit states within the jurisdiction of the Southern Command, Charak said.
According to the state government’s preliminary estimates, over 250,000 hectares of agricultural land was marooned, posing a serious threat for the standing crops.
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