Heavy rains lash S'rashtra, S Gujarat

IAF chopper rescues 3 in Devbhumi Dwarka; Kalyanpur in Dwarka gets 281mm rain in 12 hrs

Heavy rains lashed parts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat on Monday, leaving many villages flooded and cut off, and an Indian Air Force helicopter had to be deployed to rescue three stranded persons in Devbhumi Dwarka district, officials said.

Kalyanpur taluka in Devbhumi Dwarka district received 281 millimetres of rain in a 12-hour period ending at 6pm, the State Emergency Operation Centre said.

"Due to flooding, eight persons stranded in Keshavpura and Tankaria villages in Kalyanpur were rescued by teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) deployed in the region. Three others in Paneli village were stranded in such a manner that an NDRF team could not reach them," Devbhumi Dwarka collector GT Pandya said.