46 people killed in floods triggered by Hurricane Ida in US

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida has risen to 46 on Thursday local time in the United States. This comes after New Jersey announced that at least 23 people have died in the state.

According to Reports, Governor Phil Murphy said that the majority of the deaths have occurred as people, who were caught in their car, and were ‘overtaken by the water’. Officials said many people were unaccounted for.

“We’re going to withhold a complete rundown of the blessed losses of life. They are spread across a handful of counties, largely concentrated — not entirely — but largely concentrated in central Jersey and a few in the north,” Murphy said in an evening update.

Dozens of people have died in six Eastern states — Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia — after the storm brought unprecedented rainfall to some areas.