MANIPUR: FLASH FLOOD CAUSING DISRUPTION IN THE STATE

In Manipur, flash flood due to incessant rain has inundated low laying areas of the valley districts including state capital Imphal. Flood water has overflowed at some parts of the riverbanks of the major rivers like Nambul, Iril and Imphal Rivers. This has led to submerge of many government offices, schools and human inhabited areas in Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Thoubal Districts. The flood disaster management department has declared alert of floods and landslides with the prediction of heavy to very heavy rain at few places with extremely heavy rain at some isolated places of Manipur. All India Radio Imphal transmission has also stopped its transmission temporarily from 6:46 this morning due to the flash flood.

State Relief and Disaster Management Department has also alerted Deputy Commissioners of all districts of the state. The alert says that the rainfall may continue till June 15 as per the Indian meteorological department. The department has instructed all the deputy commissioners to take up precautionary measures.