Pune, 09 July (HS): A total of 1,137 residents and tourists of Mawal tehsil in

Pune district stranded in floods and landslides were rescued by the district

administration. Five people, however, died in the flood. Several houses

collapsed and villagers lost cattle and crops washed away.

SDO

Surendra Navle and Tehsildar Vikram Deshmukh inspected the rescue operations initiated

through the National Disaster Response Force, municipal teams from Pune,

Lonavala, and Wadgaon. Anilam Lovers’ Organisations also cooperated with the

official machinery.

Three

people died in landslide in Patan village on July 6. One person was buried as

slush entered his house. In a Zilla Parishad schools and rescue centre in

Sajjangadh, 305 villages from 56 families were accommodated. Several villages

from Bhaje were accommodated in different rescue centre.

A villages from Nigde village was swept away

in flood and died, while 97 tourists from Malvali guest houses were rescued.

Slush

from roads and several houses is being removed. Losses suffered by villages is

being surveyed.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar