Rains wash away road diversions, uproot trees, damage houses in Jharkhand

Several road diversions were washed away, trees uprooted and houses damaged due to incessant rain for the past two days in Jharkhand, an official said on Saturday.

However, no casualty was reported from any part of the state till now, a disaster management official said.

The Jharkhand government has already ordered that all schools be closed on Saturday in view of the rains.

NDRF teams had been deployed in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi on Friday to rescue people from low-lying areas hit by incessant rains, he said.

But, the situation is under control there, he said.

The weather department has issued alert for heavy rains in many districts on Saturday.

"Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places is very likely today and isolated extremely heavy rainfall is also very likely over Northwest Jharkhand," Ranchi Meteorological Centre in-charge Abhishek Anand said.

In Ranchi, several low-lying areas are submerged under rainwater. Around 40 p