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Digital Desk: Schools in New Delhi were closed on Monday after heavy monsoon rains pounded the Indian capital and caused landslides and flash floods in the country's north, killing at least 15 people in the last three days.
The weekend's torrential downpours inundated areas of New Delhi, submerging roadways and stranding citizens. According to the Press Trust of India, the northern hill states were the worst affected, with ten persons dead in flash floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
One person died in New Delhi, and four more were killed in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir.
Landslides caused by the rains disrupted traffic on major highways in Uttarakhand, a tourist hill state in the Himalayas, urging people to refrain from leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary. Authorities used helicopters for rescuing people while bridges and houses were destroyed in neighboring Himachal Pradesh.
The Indian weather agency has predicted more heavy downpours in the north in the coming days. It said that monsoon rains have already brought around 2% more rainfall than usual to the country.
The monsoon season, which lasts from June to September and brings the majority of South Asia's yearly rainfall, is characterized by devastating floods that frequently occur in India. The rains are essential for rain-fed crops sown during the season, yet they frequently cause considerable damage.
According to scientists, climate change and global warming are causing monsoons to become increasingly irregular, resulting in frequent landslides and flash floods in India's Himalayan north.
Authorities in neighboring Pakistan, which has also been battered by monsoon rains, were on high alert for the season's first floods when India diverted water from dams into the Ravi River, which runs from India into Pakistan.
According to Pakistan's disaster management agency, evacuations from the lowlands in eastern Punjab province were ongoing. Around 150 people have been moved overnight from villages in Narowal and Sialkot, officials said.
Since June 25, at least 76 people have died in weather-related incidents in Pakistan, as heavy rains have impacted tens of thousands of people in this Islamic country.
Pakistan said New Delhi had informed Islamabad about the release of water into the Ravi, as required by the World Bank-mediated Indus Water Treaty of 1960.
Cash-strapped Pakistan is still battling to recover from last summer's flooding, which killed 1,739 people and caused $30 billion in damage.
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