Following rain water entering into two houses, two aged women died in Salem on Tuesday.
On Monday around 10 p.m., rain poured in various parts of Salem. At Yercaud and in Salem City, heavy rain lashed for two hours, and rainwater stagnated on almost all the roads in the City.
Due to heavy rain in Yercaud, rainwater passed via the channels in Salem City. The rainwater overflowed the channels and entered the houses near the channels in ward 16 and in ward 26 of Salem Corporation in the early hours of Tuesday.