AS MANY as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents including landslides in Maharashtra in the last 48 hours, a senior official from the State Disaster Management Department said on Friday .

This included 38 deaths in a landslide in a village in the coastal Raigad district’s Mahad tehsil on Thursday, he told PTI.

“The death toll in Maharashtra in the last 48 hours has reached 129. Most of the deaths are from Raigad and Satara districts,” the official said. Besides landslides, several people were swept away in floodwaters. The official put the death toll in various incidents in Western Maharashtra’s Satara district at 27. Other fatalities included those reported from eastern districts such as Gondia and Chandrapur, he said.

The Maharashtra Government announced an ex-gratia of Rs five lakh each to the kin of people who have died in landslides triggered by heavy rains in different parts of the State. A statement from the CMO here said, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who announced the financial assistance, also expressed grief over the loss of lives.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the loss of lives in a landslide in Raigad district and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of the deceased. Modi said the situation in Maharashtra due to heavy rains is being closely-monitored and assistance is being provided to the affected. Landslides also hit Ambeghar and Mirgaon villages in Satara’s Patan tehsil, burying a total of eight houses, said Ajay Kumar Bansal, Superintendent of Police, Satara rural. But no deaths have been confirmed in the two incidents by local officials so far. Besides, 10 persons were feared trapped after a landslide in the coastal Ratnagiri district.