As per the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), to date 27 individuals have misplaced their lives after being struck by lightning in totally different components of Gujarat.
Most of the deaths had been reported in the districts of Dahod, Tapi, Dangs, Amreli, Surendranagar, Botad, Mehsana, Kheda, Panchmahal, Sabarkantha, Ahmedabad, Bharuch and Devbhumi Dwarka, it stated.
Lightning strikes additionally killed animals, whereas premature rains accompanied by thunderstorms and hailstorms broken homes and standing crops, the officers stated.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid condolences to the households of the victims and stated the state administration was engaged in aid work.
Shah, in a submit on X on Sunday evening, stated, “I am deeply saddened by the news of the death of many people due to bad weather and lightning in various cities of Gujarat. I express my deepest condolences for the irreparable loss to those who lost their loved ones in this tragedy. The local administration is engaged in relief work.” Gujarat Cabinet Minister Rushikesh Patel on Monday stated Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, who’s at the moment on a visit to Japan to promote the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2024, has expressed concern over the premature rainfall and lack of lives and injury brought on by it.
Rushikesh Patel, who can also be the state authorities’s spokesperson, stated practically 60 per cent of the state has obtained showers starting from 1 mm to 144 mm in the final two days, inflicting loss to kharif crops.
The authorities will perform a survey to assess injury brought on by unseasonal downpour, hail and lightning in components of the state in order that ample compensation is given to affected farmers, he stated.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its newest bulletin, stated the state was probably to expertise dry climate from Tuesday onwards, with minimal temperatures anticipated to fall by 4 to 5 levels Celsius earlier than rising through the subsequent 4 to 5 days.
In 12 hours until 6 pm on Monday, a complete 27 talukas of Gujarat obtained 1 to 45 mm rainfall, primarily in south Gujarat districts of Tapi, Valsad, Navsari, Dangs and Surat.
It was a drastic discount from 236 talukas receiving precipitation up to 144 mm in 24 hours until Sunday morning, the SEOC information confirmed.
Apart from inflicting injury to standing crops, the sudden showers additionally affected the ceramic trade in Morbi district in the Saurashtra area as factories had been compelled to stay shut, officers stated.
The premature rains had been precipitated due to a cyclonic circulation mendacity over the north-east Arabian sea and adjoining Saurashtra and Kutch areas, the IMD stated in a bulletin earlier.
