Nineteen persons were killed in rain-related mishaps in Gujarat on Friday night and on Saturday, including 16 deaths in incidents of wall/building collapse, as Saurashtra and central Gujarat were lashed by heavy rains.
As of Saturday morning, Gujarat had received 77.80 per cent of annual average rainfall, with south Gujarat receiving 98.31 per cent rainfall, Met department data showed.
With every tehsil in the state receiving good showers and water stock in dams at 60 per cent, there is no longer drought anywhere, chief minister Vijay Rupani said.
Eight persons -- construction labourers from Madhya Pradesh and their family members -- were killed and four were injured when a wall collapsed on their shanties in Morbi city on Saturday afternoon amid heavy rains, said Superintendent of Police Karansinh Vaghela.
In a similar incident, a compound wall collapsed on a family of construction labourers from Udaipur killing a couple and their two children at Bopal in Ahmedabad on ..
