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Flood in India on August 09 2019 03:45 AM (UTC).
Situation Update No. 1 on August 10 2019 04:11 AM (UTC)


Heavy rainfall in four districts of western Maharashtra has claimed 30 lives so far. For the past week, the districts of Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara have been battered by incessant rain and severe flooding, and the situation is likely to get worse with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting another two to three days of heavy downpours.

Stepping in with rescue and relief measures, the State government, with the help of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the defense forces, has evacuated approximately 2.5 lakh people from the affected districts. According to the State government and the IMD, a depression in the Bay of Bengal off the Odisha coast resulted in torrential rainfall across various central Indian States, including Maharashtra....

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"The rains have battered our farms. As it is our agriculture is in a bad way. After these rains I don't know what our condition will be," said Ramesh Atmaram Patil, a sugar cane farmer from Satara....

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