Several cities in Gujarat are experiencing heavy showers, leading to a flood-like situation. In Vadodra, even as rains took a pause it grappled with flooding in a large swathe of low-lying areas after the Vishwamitri river, flowing through the city, breached its banks and entered residential localities.
Left-arm spinner Radha Yadav on Wednesday shared a video via her Instagram story, stating that she was stuck in a ‘very bad situation’ and was rescued by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). In the video, the NDRF officials could be seen carrying a few people on a boat as buildings, roads and vehicles remain inundated.
“We are Stuck in a Very bad situation. Thank you so much #NDRF for rescuing us,” Radha wrote on her Insta Story.
Earlier, former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan also took to the microblogging site X and asked people in Baroda to stay indoors.
“Stay safe, Baroda. Flooding is widespread, so please stay indoors for your own safety,” Pathan wrote.
On Wednesday, districts in the Saurashtra region such as Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Porbandar received between 50mm and 200 mm rains in a 12-hour period that ended at 6 pm. Bhanvad taluka of Devbhumi Dwarka district received 185 mm of rainfall during this period, the highest in the state.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast of extremely heavy rains in isolated parts of districts in Saurashtra on Thursday.
People stranded in their houses and rooftops in Vadodara city were rescued and relocated to safer places by teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), its state counterpart SDRF and three columns of the Army deployed for the purpose, officials said.
Apart from the NDRF and the SDRF, the Army, the Indian Air Force and the Coast Guard were carrying out rescue and relief operations in rain-ravaged parts, with around 17,800 people relocated and another 2,000 rescued so far, officials said.
As many as 26 persons have died in rain-related incidents in the last three days. These deaths were reported from Rajkot, Anand, Mahisagar, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Morbi, Junagadh and Bharuch districts.
At least nine persons died in rain-related incidents, such as collapse of walls and drowning, in different parts of the state on Tuesday, an official release said.
(With Agency Inputs)
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