India, July 17 -- Four people who had died on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday last week following heavy rainfall was due to electrocution and drowning as per the preliminary autopsy reports, said district administration and health department officials on Wednesday.

Officials said that the details of the initial findings in the autopsies were shared by the health department with the district administration on Tuesday on the direction of the Gurugram deputy commissioner (DC) Ajay Kumar. The DC had sought detailed reports from all the sub-divisional magistrates on the loss of lives and properties caused after the heavy rainfall that took place on night of July 9 to share it with the state government on immediate basis.

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