As many as six persons died and thousands were rendered homeless during massive rains which lashed the district between the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Of the six casualties, three people including a woman and her two children died when the boundary wall of IIM-Indore campus at Rau could not sustain the mammoth onslaught of rains and collapsed on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. In another incident, a woman died of electrocution in Naya Basera locality of the city, while bodies of an aged woman and man were found floating at Santer and Haathipala nullah.
The total rains during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday has been recorded as the highest in the past over three decades during the month of August. According to meteorological department, in the past 24 hours, the city recorded a total rainfall of around 8 inches (191.2 mm), the highest in the past 33 years on a single day in the month of August.
The fresh spell of rains, which started from Tuesday morning with light to medium drizzle and by 8 pm on Wednesday evening, accompanied by high velocity winds, it turned into heavy downpour, inundating all the low-lying areas of the city including hundreds of slum areas of the city, rendering thousands of people homeless as knee to thigh deep rain water gushed into their thatched houses.
According to rough estimate, as many as 250 localities of the city got inundated in the rain water, while reports of felling of tree were reported from 30 places.
As many as six persons are reported to have been killed in rain related incidents across the district.
District collector P Narhari accompanied by Indore mayor Malini Gaud and IMC commissioner Manish Singh in order to rescue rainwater marooned people visited many parts of the city on Wednesday night and with help of IMC and district administration officials evacuated thousands of people from low lying areas of the city to safer places.