MUMBAI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Death toll from a dam breach on Tuesday night in India's western state of Maharashtra has reached to 11, while another 13 are missing as per the update from the district administration said on Wednesday.
The Tiware dam, with a capacity of 2.4 million cubic meters on a rivulet developed a rupture after heavy rains on Tuesday night flooded the seven downstream villages and hamlets within minutes.
A group of young revelers, who were at the dam site in the evening for a picnic on Tuesday evening had anticipated the breach and had alerted the villagers, which had substantially reduced the human loss of this unfortunate event.
The six to seven downstream villages following the dam had a population of around 3,000.
At least 12 houses from a nearby hamlet adjacent to the dam were washed away.
National Disaster Response Force team is at the site and search, rescue operations are going on.
The state, which has 35 percent of the country's 5,202 dams, is under a spell of incessant rainfall and tragic incidents like wall collapse that has taken a toll on human life over the past few days.
