Overview

• Incessant downpours since Wednesday triggered multiple landslides in Darjeeling’s Lower Gok and surrounding wards, killing excavator operator Pranit Yogi and six-year-old Samantha Subba.
• National Highway 10 was reopened after civil defence quick-response teams and earthmovers cleared boulders that had blocked traffic earlier in the day.
• India Meteorological Department recorded up to 72 mm of rain in Darjeeling and warned of additional heavy showers over north Bengal and Sikkim in the coming days.
• Minor landslides, uprooted trees and flooded streets have damaged houses in several Darjeeling wards and prompted ongoing slope inspection by disaster-management teams.
• Waterlogging in at least six wards of Malda town has drawn criticism of the Englishbazar municipality’s drainage system as residents face repeated monsoon floods.