New Delhi, July 20 (PTI): Heavy rains wreaked havoc in the eastern states of Assam and West Bengal with four persons dying in landslides, and leaving rivers flooded in Uttar Pradesh. The weatherman has warned of "extremely heavy" rains in Assam and Meghalaya and very heavy rains in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Konkan and Goa and Vidarbha.
A woman was killed in a landslide in Guwahati as the flood situation in Assam remained grim. The State Disaster Management Authority has sounded an alert for Barpeta and Jorhat districts.
Manas, Noakhanda, Mora Chawlkhowa, Beki rivers are in spate in Barpeta and the Brahmaputra at Majuli in Jorhat.
About 1.41 lakh people have been hit by the current wave of floods in 213 villages in Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Morigaon, Jorhat, Dhemaji and Sivasagar districts.
Three members of a family were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at Fincheytaar in Darjeeling Hills. Heavy rains pounded sub-Himalayan West Bengal but gave a miss to rest of the state. IMD said the region will witness heavy downpour over the next four days.
Jalpaiguri was the wettest place in the state, gauging 67 mm of rains, Darjeeling got 59.8 mm of precipitation and Cooch Behar 12.8 mm.
