Guwahati Landslide: One Died After a Wall Collapsed in Dhirenpara

GUWAHATI: A person was killed on Thursday when a guard wall fell on a factory that made sweets in Dhirenpara, Guwahati.

The guard wall fell on the small manufacturing unit for sweets located at Sonali Path in the Dhirenpara neighbourhood of Guwahati as a result of the nonstop rains that have been falling there for the past few days.

After removing the rubble from the location, the rescue crew found the person deceased. Mukhtar Ali has been named as the deceased. According to sources, the landside was caused by nonstop rain for the past few days. The victim was a candy salesman who died when a factory's security wall fell.

Earlier, a madrassa's concrete wall collapsed on two students in Jogighopa, in the Bongaigaon district of Assam, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other.

A concrete wall fell at Darul Alam Madrassa in the Balapara district, causing both of them to sustain critical injuries.

After the tragedy, they were immediately taken to Goalpara Civil Hospital, but for more advanced care, they were eventually transferred to a private hospital in Guwahati.

Around 34,189 individuals have been impacted by the state's first round of flooding in Assam so far this year, according to officials.

Assam was hit by the monsoon on June 10; as of Friday morning, the weather service had averaged 41 mm of rain each day. Over the next five days, there will likely be moderate rainfall, with isolated areas likely to see heavy to very heavy rainfall.

The Upper Assam district of Lakhimpur has been the hardest hit thus far. On Wednesday, the Singra river breached an embankment at Chamua Gaon and a riverside bund at Philbari Basti, gushing water into nearby villages. 22 villages, 23,516 people, and 21.87 hectares of crops have been impacted in Lakhimpur.

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