Torrential rain continued to lash parts of the northeast on Monday with five deaths reported from Arunachal Pradesh. Since Sunday, five people were killed and six others were injured in two separate landslides in Arunachal Pradesh, a state government release said.

According to reports, a few houses were swept away at Modirijo village between Itanagar and Naharlagun on NH-415 on Monday.

Three people were killed when their house was hit by a massive landslide near Punjabi Dhaba, they said.

A woman is still trapped inside the house, which came crashing down Sunday night due to the impact of the landslide, Capital Superintendent of Police (SP) Jimmy Chiram said.

In another incident, two PWD labourers were swept away in landslides at Ganga-Jully Basti Road while trying to extricate a motorcycle stuck in mud, Chiram said.

Officials said surface communication between Likaballi in Lower Siang district and Aalo, the headquarters of West Siang district, was disrupted following landslides at various points.

According to the IMD office in Guwahati, four states in the region witnessed excess rainfall than normal from May 1 to May 16. While Meghalaya recorded 115% excess, Assam 49%, Manipur 27%, Nagaland 18% and Arunachal Pradesh 11%. Tripura recorded 44% deficit rainfall than normal and Mizoram 41% less rain than normal in this period.

According to the IMD office, widespread to fairly widespread rainfall accompanied with heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places till May 19 in Arunachal Pradesh and thunderstorm/lightning and heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura is “very likely” till Friday.

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