Uttar Pradesh: Several injured after overhead tank collapses in Mathura

Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 30 (ANI): Several people were injured in a tragic incident where an overhead tank collapsed in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura due to excessive rain.

The police said that as soon as they got the information of the incident, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were called and began the rescue operation.

Mathura Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kumar Pandey told ANI, “This incident occurred in the Krishna Vihar area where a 250kL tank collapsed due to excess rain. Rescue teams of the district reached the spot immediately and rescue operation began immediately. The District Magistrate and I immediately called the NDRF and SDRF teams as well. The injured have been shifted to the district hospital. We are still looking for people in the rubble to check for anyone trapped. No one is missing but we are still looking in case there are any other unknown persons.”

Meanwhile, in UP’s Moradabad district on Sunday witnessed severe waterlogging, with people having to use boats to commute.

The residents of Bholanath Colony in Moradabad were seen using boats to navigate the submerged area.

The residents say that the situation prevailing in the area is “quite bad” due to the waterlogging.

“The situation is quite bad. We are using a boat to commute. The whole area is suffering from waterlogging. Even the boat came only yesterday. We have to travel in this water,” Bablu, a resident of Bholanath Colony, told ANI.

IMD has issued an alert for widespread rainfall and thunderstorms across several regions in India on Sunday.

Recent satellite imagery indicates the presence of convective clouds, signalling the possibility of light to moderate rainfall at many locations.

As per the IMD, intense spells of rain, accompanied by isolated thunderstorms, cloud-to-ground lightning, and gusty winds, are expected in Punjab and adjoining Himachal Pradesh, southwest and adjoining extreme northwest Madhya Pradesh, east Uttar Pradesh and adjoining extreme north Chhattisgarh, southeast Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, south Gujarat, south Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, south Karnataka, north Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, and Meghalaya.