AHMEDABAD: Parts of Gujarat’s Saurashtra region received heavy rains on Monday, leading to the death of three people in Rajkot and Rajkot. jamnagar Rivers are in spate and low-lying areas are flooded, prompting authorities to issue an alert and deploy NDRF and SRDF teams for evacuation and relief.
District officials said that Indian Air Force helicopters have been deployed to airlift people in Jamnagar and Rajkot.
Rajkot’s Lodhika taluka received 435 mm of rain in a period of 10 hours from 6 am on Monday, while Visavadri Taluka Inn Junagadh State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) officials said that Kalavad in Jamnagar 348 mm, Rajkot Taluka 305 mm, Rajkot Dhoraji 202 mm, Rajkot Kotdasangani 190 mm, Rajkot Gondal 162 mm, State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) officials said.
In two separate incidents at Kalawar in Rajkot and Jam Jodhpur in Jamnagar district, a woman and two men drowned when their cars were washed away by the intensity of rain, officials said.
Several teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were moved to Rajkot, Junagadh and Jamnagar.
Collector Saurabh Pardhi said that about 20 people were airlifted by Indian Air Force helicopters from different villages of Jamnagar district and 30 others were also rescued, while Rajkot Collector Arun Mahesh Babu told that IAF helicopters were three different Preparations are being made to airlift 22 people from different villages. his district.
“So far we have evacuated a total of 1,155 people to safer places in the district, and the process is on. One team of NDRF from Bathinda in Punjab and two teams of SDRF from Banaskantha and Vadodara will be here to assist in the rescue operations.” Babu said.
Pardhi said that two teams of NDRF and one team of SDRF are carrying out rescue operations in the affected areas in Jamnagar.
An SEOC official said a portion of the national highway between Jamnagar and Kalawar was blocked due to floods, while six state highways in Jamnagar, Amreli and Porbandar districts and 58 village roads in different districts were similarly affected.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department, during the day, forecast widespread rainfall across Gujarat till Wednesday, including “heavy to very heavy rainfall with very heavy falls at a few places over districts of Saurashtra during the next four days”. Is.
The IMD said that parts of South Gujarat and other districts may also receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during this period.
District officials said that Indian Air Force helicopters have been deployed to airlift people in Jamnagar and Rajkot.
Rajkot’s Lodhika taluka received 435 mm of rain in a period of 10 hours from 6 am on Monday, while Visavadri Taluka Inn Junagadh State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) officials said that Kalavad in Jamnagar 348 mm, Rajkot Taluka 305 mm, Rajkot Dhoraji 202 mm, Rajkot Kotdasangani 190 mm, Rajkot Gondal 162 mm, State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) officials said.
In two separate incidents at Kalawar in Rajkot and Jam Jodhpur in Jamnagar district, a woman and two men drowned when their cars were washed away by the intensity of rain, officials said.
Several teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were moved to Rajkot, Junagadh and Jamnagar.
Collector Saurabh Pardhi said that about 20 people were airlifted by Indian Air Force helicopters from different villages of Jamnagar district and 30 others were also rescued, while Rajkot Collector Arun Mahesh Babu told that IAF helicopters were three different Preparations are being made to airlift 22 people from different villages. his district.
“So far we have evacuated a total of 1,155 people to safer places in the district, and the process is on. One team of NDRF from Bathinda in Punjab and two teams of SDRF from Banaskantha and Vadodara will be here to assist in the rescue operations.” Babu said.
Pardhi said that two teams of NDRF and one team of SDRF are carrying out rescue operations in the affected areas in Jamnagar.
An SEOC official said a portion of the national highway between Jamnagar and Kalawar was blocked due to floods, while six state highways in Jamnagar, Amreli and Porbandar districts and 58 village roads in different districts were similarly affected.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department, during the day, forecast widespread rainfall across Gujarat till Wednesday, including “heavy to very heavy rainfall with very heavy falls at a few places over districts of Saurashtra during the next four days”. Is.
The IMD said that parts of South Gujarat and other districts may also receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during this period.
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