Heavy rains lash Madhya Pradesh; 15 dead in various incidents

Fifteen deaths in rain-related mishaps, including seven in a house collapse, were reported in Madhya Pradesh since last evening, as the MeT department predicted more showers and sounded heavy downpour alert for some districts in the next 24 hours.
Three Indian Air Force aircraft dropped food packets and medicines in flooded areas of Rewa district, collector Rahul Jain said, adding that there was no casualty and the district was limping back to normalcy following a pause in the rains.
Seven persons, including a woman and four minors, were killed and three others injured when a house collapsed early today in Rahatgarh area of Sagar district.

Two people including an elderly woman were killed and seven injured this noon when a newly-constructed building collapsed amid incessant rains at Maihar, Satna district.
A jeep carrying two persons was swept away in the swollen Betwa river as it tried to cross a bridge in Raisen district.
Three bodies were recovered from a nullah this afternoon in Chhattarpur district. The victims were in a car which was washed off a bridge on the flooded nullah last evening.

Aneesh, a three-year-old boy, was killed yesterday when a thatched house collapsed in Bahoriband tehsil in Katni district, police said.
In Rahatgarh area of Sagar district, thatched house of Mehtab Shilpkar (59) collapsed amid heavy rains at around 2 am today, Additional Superintendent of Police Vivek Agrawal said.

The victims were fast asleep. Mehtab, his son Lakhan (26) and one Mahendra (20) were injured and admitted to the district hospital.
Rani Gupta (65) and Bablu Martin (45) were killed and
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'Torrential rain' alert had been sounded for Tikamgarh, Ashok Nagar, Guna, Indore, Ujjain, Hoshangabad, Shajapur, Dewas, Ratlam, Satna, Chhattarpur, Panna and Katni districts for the next 24 hours.
However, he said the sun may shine tomorrow on the east Madhya Pradesh which has witnessed incessant rains in the last couple of days.
The rainfall in other parts of the state too might decrease in the next couple of days, Dr Kashyapi said.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan this evening rushed to the flood-affected Rewa and Satna districts cancelling his scheduled programs, a government press release said.
He assured the people that the Government stood with them in this hour of distress.
Due to the bad weather and incessant rain in Bhopal, Chouhan went to Itarsi railway station in the neighbouring Hoshangabad district by road, and boarded a train to Satna, instead of using a helicopter.
Earlier in the morning, he reviewed the situation in the state at an emergency meeting at his residence and announced financial help of Rs 4 lakh each to the family members of the 15 deceased persons, a government official said.