Heavy rainfall due to a cloudburst in various parts of India wreaked havoc, cutting-off villages, washing away roads and bridges at several places and killing scores of people.
In Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state, 17 people have been buried alive as dangerous landslides hit the hilly region, where torrents of rainfall have been hitting for nearly weeks now.
Meanwhile, cities of Dehradun and Haridwar have not gained any sort of respite from Mother Nature's fury as 20 persons were killed when their houses were washed away due to landslides and floods.
Joint Secretary of the Disaster Management Board, Santosh Badoni, confirmed the death toll in the district.
"From the area, we have been informed that there are 20 casualties because of the landslide," said Badoni.
Incessant rains across the state since Wednesday night have thrown life out of gear. Many major roads have gone under water and bridges washed away. Rescue work is still going on.
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The situation is no less chaotic in Tripura, where landslides have destroyed many houses in the mountainous areas.
A tribal woman and her two children were killed when a landslide buried their house in Sabroom district here on Thursday (August 14) night.
Sub- Divisional Magistrate of Sabroom district, Rajib Datta, said the victims were from a family of five who had been residing in a hillock, about eight km from Sabroom. Due to the incessant rains, a mud block fell on the house while they were asleep.
"A lady with her two children of the age 4.5 years and another 4.5 month has been killed. The administration, along with police, reached the spot and recovered the victims with the help of Manu Bazar fire service. Postmortem has been completed and initially we have given a financial help of 9,000 rupees so that they can complete the after death rituals and later we will help more," said Datta.
He added the victim's husband escaped, along with their elder son.
Weather forecasts indicate heavy showers till August 18 due to a cyclonic cloud over West Bengal and Bihar, along the Himalayan region.
In another set of unfortunate events, landslides have uprooted trees in the hilly regions of Shimla city in Himachal Pradesh province, thus blocking mountainous roads and disrupting regular life of the residents there.
Lashing rains resulted in huge damage to crops and roads in the city as over 35 villages in Rampur subdivision of Shimla district gradually buried under the mudslides. The recent rains also caused huge loss to apple and other crops to the farmers of Khandri village here.
"These 35 villages in the Pandra-Bish valley are badly affected due to heavy rains. The roads leading to some of the villages here have been blocked for over two weeks now. Locals here are disappointed with the administration's inaction to our situation as our problems are not being looked into," said a resident, Meena Kumari.
Uttarakhand state was hit by its heaviest rainfall on record in June 2013, causing lakes and rivers to burst their banks, inundating towns and villages below.
The official death toll was 900 with more than 5,700 people declared missing, making it the deadliest ever in the mountainous region. Floods or landslides also washed away or damaged 5,000 roads, 200 bridges and innumerable buildings.
The disaster, dubbed a "Himalayan tsunami" by officials and media, prompted one of the largest airlifts in the history of the Indian air force, as helicopters flew hundreds of sorties to rescue residents and pilgrims and drop thousands of kilograms of relief material.