Mumbai / Pune / Raigad: A total of 129 people have died in the incident related to rain, including several landslides, in Maharashtra for the past two days, while 84,452 people under the Division Pune were shifted to safer places on Friday when heavy rains continued Continuing releasing havoc in the state, officials said.
The deceased included 38 people who perished in landslides in Raigad district on Thursday, senior officials from the State Disaster Management Department.
“The death toll in Maharashtra in the last 48 hours has reached 129.
Most of the deaths come from Raigad and Satara districts,” the official said.
In addition to landslides, some people were swept away in the flood.
The official placed the death toll in Satara District in 27.
Other deaths including those reported from eastern districts such as Gondia and Chandrapur, he said.
Landslides in the Raigad district took place near the Talas Village at Mahad Tehsil on Thursday night.
The NDRF team and local officials are involved in rescue work in Mahad.
Landslides also crashed into the village of Ambeghar and Mirgaon in Patan Tehsil Satara during Thursday night, burying a total of eight houses, said Ajay Kumar Bansal, police supervisor, Rural Satara.
But no deaths have been confirmed in two incidents by officials so far.
About 10 feared people were trapped after landslides in Ratnagiri District.
Eleven people, including eight Nepalese workers, were saved in time before the bus where they traveled swept on the Chikodi River which flooded in Kolhapur Regency, police said.
The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m.
in Pangire Village in Bhudargad Tehsil.
The bus driver was detained and booked to drive on the flood bridge, police said.
In another incident in Wee Friday, a bus bound by Ratnagiri from the transportation services of the Karnataka government stranded in water on Jalan Kolhapur-Panhala.
25 passengers were safely evacuated, police said.
A total of 84,452 people, including more than 40,000 in Kolhapur Regency, shifted to safer places in the Division of Pune Western Maharashtra when the rain punished the regions and the rivers, officials said.