Aizawl, A 37-year-old man was killed and one other injured after a wall collapsed on a labourers’ camp within the wake of heavy rain in Mizoram’s Aizawl district, police mentioned.
One killed as wall collapses in Mizoram amid heavy rain
The incident occurred round 7 am in Thuampui space within the northeastern a part of Aizawl when the wall fell on the makeshift institution the place the 2 have been staying, a senior officer mentioned.
“The two persons were buried under the debris after the wall collapsed. One person died on the spot, while the injured has been taken to nearby Greenwood hospital,” he mentioned.
A bulletin, issued by the state catastrophe administration and rehabilitation division, mentioned that landslides and rockfall occurred at a number of locations attributable to heavy rain, blocking inter-district and nationwide highways.
No less than two homes have been severely broken attributable to land subsidence and collapse of a retaining wall in Mauchar village in Aizawl district close to the state border with Assam and Manipur, and at Rangvamual on the western outskirts of Aizawl attributable to rain, it mentioned.
A home was additionally swept away by an enormous mudslide at Champhai’s Bethel Veng neighbourhood within the japanese a part of the state, it mentioned.
No casualties have been reported in these incidents, in response to the police.
A street to Berawtlang, one of many widespread vacationer websites within the japanese outskirts of Aizawl, caved in due to an enormous landslide on Friday, whereas a avenue has additionally been blocked due to an enormous rockfall at Ramhlun South space in Aizawl, the bulletin mentioned.
Two homes have been partially broken attributable to a landslide and robust wind in west Mizoram’s Mamit district, the division mentioned.
A wood bridge over the swollen Tisopi river in Siaha district washed away attributable to floods.
A nationwide freeway was blocked attributable to a landslide at Sangau close to the Cheru river in Lawngtlai district, the bulletin mentioned.
All faculties within the state, besides these in Saitual district, stay shut on Friday attributable to heavy rain.