At least three persons lost their lives in different incidents across the State on Tuesday as heavy downpour continued to lash the State throwing life out of gear in the urban and rural areas. Trees got uprooted and diversions alongside under construction bridges got washed away blocking communication in many areas, while Damodar and Subarnarekha rivers were nearing danger mark.
The Meteorological Department has also warned about heavy downpour in some of the districts like East Singhbhum, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Giridih, Koderma, Ramgarh and Khunti witnessing heavy rainfall ranging from 7-20 cm in the next 24 hours.
“This rainfall will continue till tomorrow all over the State while some of the areas might witness heavy rains in the next 24 hours for which an alert has been issued by the Department,” said Director of Meteorological Centre in Ranchi BK Mondal.
Meanwhile, two persons, including a girl going to her college, were killed at Govind Nagar in Ranchi under Ratu Police Station after a heavy tree fell on the auto-rickshaw in which they were travelling. The tree was so huge that the auto rickshaw got shattered following which seven others travelling into it also got injured in the incident.
Another student Sonu Kumar of St. Columba College in Hazaribagh also got killed after a dried out tree got uprooted and fell directly on him due to heavy rains while returning towards his home after tuition classes on his bicycle.
Several houses also collapsed due to heavy downpour during the last three days and thousands of people were compelled to leave their homes in the low lying areas of the State.
Water level of the dams in the State are also nearing the danger zone due to which several cusecs of water were released resulting into an increase of water in the rivers on which they are located. More than 2,000 cusec of water was released from Garga Dam on Monday which increased the water level in the river making life of the people living nearby further miserable. About 1600 cusec of water was also released from Patratu Dam in Ramgarh.
All ten gates of the Tenughat dam have been opened and more than 2600 cusec of water was released from it.