Tourists stranded as Mt Abu cut off from rest of the state

Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India

Around 2,000 tourists were stranded and contact with 104 villages cut off due to the falling of boulder on Abu Road, leading to hill station Mount Abu as incessant rains lash Rajasthan.

Mount Abu reportedly received the heaviest rainfall in over 300 years in the last 24 hours, reports said.

Rajasthan: Abu Road, leading to Mount Abu, blocked due to falling of boulder; contact with 104 villages cut off, around 2000 tourists stuck pic.twitter.com/h6L7HdoXhU

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Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India, near the border with Gujarat. The hill station received an unprecedented 770 mm of rain in 24 hours. Statistics show that until 2010, the 100-year record for a single-day of rain in Mt Abu was 653 mm in 1992, The Hindu reports.

Yesterday, the MeT department has issued warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall in south-western and south-eastern, which covers Jodhpur and Udaipur division, during the next 24 hours.

Some areas in this region are already facing flood-like situation.

Mount Abu in Sirohi recorded 733.6 mm rains followed by Jalore, Barmer, Phalodi (Jodhpur), Jodhpur city and Dabok where the rainfall measurement was 43, 41.6, 27.6, 26 and 18.7 mm rains.

(With agency inputs)