A series of natural calamities, including floods, lightning strikes, and landslides during this monsoon season has taken 2,038 lives. Bihar witnessed the gravest impact with a reported casualty count of 518 lives, followed closely by Himachal Pradesh with 330 lives lost.
According to Union Home Ministry data, 101 people went missing and 1,584 received injuries during the rains and floods from April 1 to August 17. As many as 335 districts were affected by the rains, landslides and lightning -- 40 of them in Madhya Pradesh, 30 in Assam and 27 in Uttar Pradesh.
Twelve districts in Himachal Pradesh and seven districts in Uttarakhand were also hit by the monsoon floods and landslides.
A total of 892 persons drowned due to floods, 506 died due to lightning and 186 lost their lives due to landslides during this period, according to the data. As many as 454 people also died due to various other reasons during the monsoon.
Besides Bihar and Himachal Pradesh, 165 people died due to rains, floods, landslides and lightning in Gujarat, 138 in Madhya Pradesh, 107 each in Karnataka and Maharashtra, 90 in Chhattisgarh and 75 in Uttarakhand.
A total of 160 teams of the National Disaster Response Force have been deployed in various States. Of them, 17 teams were deployed in Himachal Pradesh, 14 in Maharashtra, 12 each in Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, 10 each in Assam and West Bengal and nine in Uttarakhand.