At least 31 dead as heavy rains slash India
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Xinhua, June 29, 2011
At least 31 people were killed and thousands of others homeless due to heavy rainfalls in northern and eastern India over the past few days, local media reported Wednesday.
Monsoon rain continued to lash most parts of northern India on Tuesday when 14 people were killed due to rain-related incidents in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, reported local daily The Hindu.
Meanwhile, at least 17 people died and over 900,000 people were affected in the heavy rains in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal over the past two days, said the newspaper.
At least 25,750 mud houses have been damaged or washed away in the state due to the rains caused by a depression over the Bay of Bengal, said the newspaper.
In the financial hub Mumbai, rains resulted in heavy water- logging in several low-lying parts of the city, flooding hundreds of local residents, said the report.
