Heavy Rain In Delhi India Kills 11 People

JAKARTA - Heavy rains caused severe impact in northern India to kill 11 people. Hundreds of pilgrims were trapped due to flooding.

The capital Delhi was hit by heavy rains on Wednesday, July 31, evening, with a total rainfall of 147 mm (5.8 inches).

Three hundred pilgrims were trapped in different locations on the Kedarnath route traveling to Hindu pilgrimage sites and parts of the national highway being swept away by water, district officials Saurabh Gaharwar told Reuters by telephone, Thursday, August 1.

Uttarakhand, which is prone to flash floods and landslides, was hit by heavy rains in 2013, and nearly 6,000 of the tens of thousands of Hindus on a pilgrimage are missing.

In the neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh, two people were killed and nearly 50 people were missing after heavy rains caused flooding.

Images shared by the state's main ministers showed rescue workers crossing the river with ropes, while muddy water flowed through rocks between the hills.

"The situation is pretty bad there and we're trying to get people out of the bodies (if any) from the rubble," Jyoti Rana, a district official in the capital Shimla.

Heavy rains that have occurred in the mountains of India and neighboring Pakistan and Nepal over the past few years have been linked to climate change by some experts.

Earlier this week, landslides hit tea plantations and villages in Kerala, southern India, killing 178 people after unexpected heavy rains.

In Delhi, water was seen leaking from the newly built parliament building, in a post on X by opposition leader Akhilesh Yadav.

Delhi has experienced a series of extreme weather events in recent months, ranging from very hot temperatures to floods and heavy rains that caused the city's airport roof to collapse.