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| 170 dead, 2.7 lakh evacuated; 300 marooned in Maharashtra floods | | |
Mumbai, Aug 9: Heavy rains continued to lash Nasik, Jalgaon, Amravati, Aurangabad, Nagpur and Pune districts of Maharashtra, claiming 170 lives in the past four days and prompting authorities to shift over two lakh persons to safer places, official sources said here today.
A total of 2,77,393 persons have been evacuated from 3419 flood affected villages in 22 districts, according to an official of Maharashtra Disaster Management cell.
Rivers Godavari, Krishna and Koyna are flowing above the danger mark while 300 persons were marooned in different parts of Nasik district, officer on special duty of Disaster Management Cell of Maharashtra, S C Mohanty told PTI today.
The government machinery is constantly monitoring the flood situation and the Army and Air Force are assisting in the rescue and relief operation, Mohanty said.
All the evacuated persons have been accomodated in temporary shelters while the marooned people were supplied with food packets and water by Air Force personnel, he said.
Two Army helicopters have flown to Thekwada village in Nasik district while two to rain-ravaged Surat in Gujarat this morning to carry out rescue operations, Brigadier P B Charak, DG Ops/Air, Southern Command, told reporters in Pune.
"We have rushed two helicopters to Thekwada village in Nasik for rescue operations," he said adding that Army has at its disposal 20 helicopters to carry out relief operations in the flood-hit states within the jurisdiction of the Southern Command. |
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