Five killed as heavy rains lash Gujarat

At least five persons have died in Gujarat following heavy rain. Thousands of people were rescued and shifted to safer location in different districts of the Indian state, officials said.

The report came as floods in India's northeast have killed at least 83 people and led to the death of three rare one-horned rhinoceros at a national park that has the world's largest concentration of the species.

The floods caused by torrential rains across the hilly states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur over the past two weeks, have also triggered landslides. In all more than 2 million people have been displaced, authorities say.