During the early hours of Thursday, heavy rainfall of 173.7 mm in a span of 12 hours caused severe flooding in various areas of Nagpur city and rural regions in Maharashtra. Tragically, two individuals lost their lives due to the inundation.
The SDRF team worked tirelessly to rescue numerous stranded families in both the city and rural areas. One of the victims, Prakash Barwe (42), a resident of Shivkrupa Nagar Besa in Nagpur Rural, drowned in Besa Nala.
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Local police with the help of SDRF jawans launched a search operation to trace Barwe, said officials.
In Hingna, the SDRF team rescued 13 stranded people. It included 3 children, from Hanuman Nagar area after water level in Vena river and a nullah increased.
Rain also damaged several houses in the district, while four families from Aalgondi village have been shifted to the gram panchayat office, while several villages remain submerged. The main road — connecting Singori and Kalmna Bela villages in Umred tehsil — got cut off.
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Streets, houses submerged after heavy rain in Nagpur; traffic disrupted
Residents of low-lying areas woke up to flooded streets, underbridges and houses after heavy rain lashed the city in the wee hours of Thursday. The heavy downpour and waterlogging led to traffic disruptions in parts of the city.
The roughly an-hour heavy downpour from midnight to 1am inundated many parts of the city.
“The streets were waterlogged and rainwater entered many houses in north, east, south and west Nagpur,” officials from Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s fire and emergency services department said.
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No loss of life or house collapse incidents were reported, said fire officials. Like every year, NMC’s monsoon preparedness was laid bare.
Narendra Nagar railway underbridge, airport road too were submerged in waist-deep water. Since morning, there were complaints related to accumulation of water in basements, they said. Personnel from fire department have started dewatering drive in several areas.
“Apart from clearing choked stormwater networks, firemen also pressed electric pumps for dewatering submerged houses in Padole Nagar and Omkar Nagar,” said NMC’s spokesperson.
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