Extremely heavy rains lashed Rajkot and Jamnagar in Gujarat during the last 24 hours, following which extra than 2 hundred human beings stranded inside the flood waters were rescued and over 7,000 human beings shifted to safer locations inside the districts, officers stated.
A countrywide highway in Jamnagar and 18 kingdom highways passing via Rajkot, Jamnagar and Junagadh districts of the Saurashtra region were closed because of flooding, affecting traffic movement. Many villages were reduce off as several roads connecting them were inundated, they stated.
A bridge over river Fofal collapsed, forcing the closure of a avenue connecting Jam Kandorna and Gondal in Rajkot district, officers stated.
After pounding Rajkot and Jamnagar overnight, the rains eased a piece inside the two districts on Tuesday, whilst heavy showers had been reported inside the neighbouring Junagadh district in the course of the day, they said.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will go to Rajkot and Jamnagar district later inside the day to get right of entry to the state of affairs, officials within the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said.
The Indian Air Force (IAF), the Navy and the Coast Guard were referred to as in to help within the rescue operations along with groups of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) inside the rain-battered districts, officers stated.
Rajkot's Lodhika taluka received the maximum rainfall of 516 mm inside the kingdom for the duration of the 24-hour length ending at 6 am on Tuesday, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) stated in an update.
Visavadar taluka in Junagadh district of Saurashtra received the second one maximum downpour at 468 mm, at the same time as Kalavad in Jamnagar recorded 406 mm rain, Rajkot taluka-325 mm and Dhoraji in Rajkot-250 mm, the SEOC said.
On Tuesday, Mangrol taluka of Junagadh district acquired 151 mm rainfall in only 4 hours on the grounds that 6 am, at the same time as Keshod taluka in Junagadh received 108 mm rainfall throughout the identical period, the SEOC said.
The IAF helicopters rescued 22 humans stranded at some places in Jamnagar, officers stated, adding that a hundred and fifty humans in all have been rescued across the district.
The IAF also rescued seven villagers in Rajkot, at the same time as a total of fifty six people had been rescued all over the district, officers said.
"A Navy crew became helping inside the operation to search for two men and women who are missing after their vehicle were given washed away in a sturdy water cutting-edge in Rajkot on Monday," Collector Arun Mahesh Babu stated.
"Two teams of the SDRF are deployed in Gondal and Lodhika talukas, he said, adding that 1,467 humans from rural areas and over six hundred from city regions have been shifted to more secure places.
Teams of the Navy and the Coast Guard also assisted the Jamnagar administration in rescuing a hundred and fifty to a hundred and sixty people within the city limits as local rescue teams have been not able to attain there due to the surge in water degree, Jamnagar Collector Sourabh Pardhi said.
During the 24-hour period ending at 6 am on Tuesday, 35 talukas received over one hundred mm rainfall, in particular in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Gir Somnath and Devbhumi Dwarka in Saurashtra region, as well as in south Gujarat's Valsad and Navsari districts, the SEOC said.
Gujarat has thus far this monsoon season obtained sixty nine.24 according to cent of the average rainfall, and the downpour this month has helped the country narrow its rain deficiency.
This month so far, the state has received 219.2 mm rainfall, as in opposition to 65.Three mm inside the complete closing month, 176.7 mm in July and a hundred and twenty.4 mm in June, as in keeping with the SEOC records.
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