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8 inches of rain submerged an area in Kutch’s Mandvi. NDRF team doing rescue operation.
Cyclone Biparjoy, formed in the Arabian Sea, finally hit the Gujarat coast on Thursday evening. Its effect remained in 8 districts including Kutch-Saurashtra. Scenes of devastation are visible all around here. Farmers and animal herders have suffered the most. Many mango and date palm orchards have been completely destroyed.
Power cut in 940 villages, hundreds of trees uprooted
Mobile towers have been damaged at many places in Jamnagar and Dwarka. According to government figures, more than 500 trees have fallen due to the strong winds. At the same time, due to the collapse of more than 300 electric poles, power supply has come to a standstill in about 940 villages. Contact with 4600 rural areas has been cut off due to floods and road closures.
NDRF rescues 45 in Kutch
It started raining heavily in Kutch from Thursday evening itself. At the same time, in Lakhpat village, more than 45 people were trapped due to the submergence of several houses. As soon as the information was received, NDRF teams reached the village and rescued the trapped people. At the same time, PSO Anil Joshi, who was on duty on the Jakhau coast, died of a heart attack.
Now see the condition of cyclone affected Gujarat in PHOTOS…
A tree fell by the wind in Chitrad village of Kutch district.
NDRF teams rescuing people from flood affected areas of Kutch.
Electric pole fell on a house in Jamnagar. In view of the threat of the storm, electricity was cut in the area since noon.
Only one transformer got grounded in Jamnagar. The area had already been evacuated.
In Dwarka, the entire roof of a kutcha house was blown away.
Ambulance carrying a patient to the hospital in Jakhau due to torrential rains accompanied by strong winds.
JCB making way for drainage in Mandvi, Kutch.
In Kutch, only half the shed of a petrol pump was blown away by strong winds.
More than 20 goats died after falling into a pit in Bhavnagar.
Rain water filled in Mata circle area in Bhavnagar.
Locals clear trees from a road to make way for an ambulance in Jamnagar.
A tractor overturned due to strong winds and rain in Rajkot.
Traffic has come to a standstill in Radhanpur after a giant tree fell on the highway.
The underbridge of Rajkot’s Paptpara got submerged, due to which the movement of vehicles stopped from both the sides.