New Delhi: Mercury
continued to soar across the country claiming two more lives in Odisha which
recorded the highest temperature of 48.5 degrees Celsius in Titlagarh while
rains wreaked havoc in Arunachal Pradesh, where the death toll from landslides
climbed to 19.
The unrelenting sun unleashed
misery on the people of Jharkhand and Telangana, where 49 people have lost
their lives.
For Delhiites, it was comparatively less hot in the national capital as the
mercury settled below normal levels. The maximum temperature was recorded at
36.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average while the minimum
temperature settled at 23 degrees, normal for this time of the year, said a Met
department official.
The drop in temperature is because of a Western disturbance prevailing over the
northern region for the last four days.
The humidity in air remained on the lower side and oscillated between 56 and 13
percent. In Arunachal Pradesh, at least two persons were killed and several
dwellings damaged in fresh landslides triggered by rains in Tawang district,
raising the toll to 19.
While a person drowned at Jengthu River in Namsai district on April 17 last, 16
people were killed in a massive landslide triggered by incessant rains at
Phamla village in Tawang on Friday.
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