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Karnataka: Heavy rain continues to lash Kodagu

2023-05-21 05:42:25

Bengaluru: HD Prime Minister Kumaraswami said on Saturday that landslides and floods continued to attack the Karnataka region due to heavy rain.

"In Kodagu, the rain caused a lot of damage, like the Indian Army state officials and navy divers are doing war rescue operations," Kumaraswamy told reporters here.

Kodag is one of the regions affected by the most south-western monsoon rain in the southern region since the first week of June.

Prime Minister Office (CMO) said landslides and heavy rain had occurred in this area since Thursday.

According to the Karnataka National Natural Disaster Monitoring Center (KSNDMC), the maximum precipitation in the area in the past 24 hours is 25.3 cm and the average precipitation is 11.9 cm.

Located in the mountainous region of the Western Ghats mountains, landslides occurred throughout the area due to continuous rain, and rescue activities became difficult.

Kumaraswamy said that interrupted telecommunications services are given preference by pulling out the pole or adjusting the telephone line due to rain or strong wind.

"About 60 Dogra Legionnaires and 12 naval experts rescued 873 imprisoned people in areas affected by the flood.

Army technical forces deployed 73 ships, equipment and life rafts, rescuers and escorted them to a more secure place in the area.

In the hilly area, Madikeri, 60 national and national disaster relief units and 45 civil defense corps participated in rescue activities of ship and fixtures

The CMO stated that because of the bad weather through Friday, the Indian Air Force could not use the helicopter to transport the airborne personnel in the area and was working hard to rescue the staff and deliver relief goods .

Coomaraswamy also asked the Federal Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to deploy more troops to Kodagu for rescue operations.

Schools and universities in Kodagu, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikkamagaluru, and Hassan region are still closed due to rain

The Southwest Railway (SWR) ceased train service from Bangalore to the canal and Ernakulam due to landslides and floods

The state-owned Karnataka National Road Transport Authority (KSRTC) also stopped bus services in some state and provinces within Kerala due to road floods.

The Bangalore branch of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts that heavy rains will occur in coastal areas of the state including Kodag and inland in the south in the next two days.

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