Death toll in rain related incidents in Gujarat rise to 22

Amreli/Morbi: At least 10 more deaths due to rain related incidents have been reported in Gujarat today taking the cumulative toll to 22.

Police said that 8 people were crushed to death when a wall near a city slum in A division area of the city suddenly collapsed durrig rain.

In another incident in a village near Amreli two children died due to drowning.

Rescue operations in various flooded/water logged areas across the state were on. At least eight people died in two incidents of wall/building collapse in Ahmedabad and Nadiad during rain. Three people were reportedly washed away in Bawadi village while they were trying to cross a flooded river in a tractor. Attempts were on to air lift five others trapped there. A youth was also washed away in main Narmada canal in Tharad area of Banaskantha district in North Gujarat.

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