Overview

• In Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, three children and a man from the Dhruv family were swept away near Marhi Mata temple, with SDRF and police recovering all four bodies for post-mortem.
• Separately in Bastar’s Kanger Valley National Park, an 18-hour operation recovered a Tamil Nadu family of four and their car after floodwaters carried them off a culvert, while the driver survived by jumping out.
• In Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district, a van directed to the defunct Sompi-Uperda bridge over the Banas River was swept off in strong currents, leaving four dead and a young girl missing.
• NDRF and SDRF teams, police and local fishermen continued search and recovery in Rajasthan after survivors used phone calls and torches to guide responders to the scene.
• Police and cyber experts cautioned that road closures, outdated mapping and weak signals can make digital directions unreliable during heavy rain.