Rains pelt north, over 100 killed in J&K

Torrential monsoon rains continued to lash several parts of north India, including Jammu and Kashmir where over a hundred people have been killed in floods and landslides.
The heaviest rains and subsequent floods in the state in six decades have left a trail of destruction and inundated hundreds of villages, leaving tens of thousands of people marooned even as rescuers struggled to get them to safety.
However, weather in Delhi remained pleasant today after rains lashed the city for the last few days.
While the maximum temperature was recorded at 32.2 degrees Celsius, the minimum was 23.6 degrees Celsius, both two notches below normal, the Met department said.

Humidity levels oscillated between 24 and 95 per cent during the day in the national capital.
Thousands of people were forced to leave their houses and take shelter at safer places as the flood fury continued across Kashmir Valley with no let up in rains for the fifth day today, officials said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who rushed to the state to take stock of the situation, said over 107 people have died due to flash-floods, landslides and house collapses.
As many as 2,500 villages have been affected while 450 villages were marooned and that a large number of houses were destroyed and road and bridges damaged, he said.

Several rivers have been flowing above the danger mark and most parts of south Kashmir, including Pulwama, Anantnag and Kulgam districts have been submerged.