STORY: :: People wade through knee-high water as heavy rain swamps villages and disrupts transit across India
:: Kanpur, India
:: Imphal, India
:: September 15, 2025
:: Mumbai, India
In northeastern Imphal, drone footage showed the Iril River flooding nearby villages to devastating effect after it breached its banks on Monday morning.
In the financial capital of Mumbai, a monorail broke down with at least 17 people stranded for hours inside it, according to authorities.
Monsoons are the lifeblood of India’s nearly $4 trillion economy, delivering almost 70% of the rainfall needed to water farms and replenishing aquifers and reservoirs. However, excessive rain often causes frequent floods.
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