More than 100 killed in India after heavy monsoon season rains
India has had 10% above average monsoon rains in 2019, the highest in 25 years, as seasonal rainfall continues unabated. Over 100 people were killed in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in recent days.
Carnage
Locals wade through flooded streets in Patna, India. The season of heavy rainfall runs typically from June to September, and normally begins to ease off by the beginning of October. This year meteorologists have reported an unusually high amount of rain.
Health hazard
A sick person is rescued from a flooded area after extreme rains in Patna, India. Dozens have died in the area.
To the rescue
State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) assist in the flooded part of Bahadurpur after heavy rains in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar. Dozens of boats were pressed into action in Patna, the capital of the eastern state of Bihar, after torrential downpours.
Inundated
Houses are inundated with floodwaters in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Heavy retreating monsoon rains have flooded large areas in northern India, killing dozens in recent days. Environmentalists have cited climate change as a reason for the unusually high rainfall so late in the season.
Waterlogged hospital
A flooded ward of the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna. At least 100 have perished as a result of the natural disaster in northern India over the last three days as monsoon rains submerged streets, hospital wards and houses.
Keeping your head above water
A man desperately seeks help as he struggles through this flooded neighborhood in Patna, in the eastern state of Bihar, India. The death toll may rise further in the coming days.