Landslides and flash floods killed five people in Kerala, with two missing, while three children drowned in Barabanki, UP. Roads in Gujarat's Bhavnagar and Rajkot were flooded, as monsoon begins to withdraw from Rajasthan.

There might have been more casualties in the Banga, South Cotabato campus shooting rampage on Friday, September 18, if not for a brave student who fought the attacker barehanded and forced him out of their classroom despite sustaining a gunshot wound to the arm.