Guwahati, May 31 -- Torrential rainfall wreaked havoc across parts of Meghalaya on Friday, leading to deadly landslides and flash floods that claimed two lives in East Khasi Hills district.

Officials confirmed the incidents as part of a broader pattern of destruction caused by days of relentless downpour.

Shanborlang Warjri, Chief Executive Officer of the East Khasi Hills District Disaster Management Authority and Additional Deputy Commissioner, reported that a 50-year-old woman, Klasliya Kharkongor, lost her life when a landslide buried her home in Laitkyntung village, under the Laitkroh-Khatarshnong Block.

At the time of the incident, she was sleeping with two of her four children in one room while her husband and two other children ...