Latur: The NDRF team, helicopters and boats were deployed on Tuesday to save people who were stranded in Barrage, villages and by the riverbank at Maharashtra when heavy rains cross the district all day.
While 25 of the 40 people stranded on the banks of the Manjara River in Sarsa Village had been saved by boat, an attempt to get a 15 break for safety, an official said.
He added that three people stranded on a river basin in the area used by Deshmukh in Tehsil Renapur had been saved.
Three employees from the State Irrigation Department were trapped in a series of Ghansargaon villages, and the National Disaster Response (NDRF) team (NDRF), as well as helicopters, had been brought in the help of local personnel with rescue efforts, said Sakeb District Disaster Manager said.
Officials said six out of 10 teasts and 30 of the 60 mandal income in the latch had received heavy rain, which led to flood and rivulet, which resulted in the authorities to release 70,845.30 cusec (cubic feet per second) water to the Manjara River after the opening 18 Gate Dam in Dhanegaon in Tehsil.
The latte district has received 66.09 millimeter rainfall in the last 24 hours, with very severe rain, along with storms, in the latch, Udgir, Ahmedpur, Chakur, Jalkoat and Ausa Tehsils, said many villages were cut off, officials said.
Some of these revenue mandals have received more than 65 mm of rainfall during this period, they said, adding that total rainfall in this Latur Regency has now touched 906 mm, which is almost 109 percent of the annual average.
Tandulja and Murud Mandal income received the highest, 127.8 mm, rainfall, followed by 103 mm tondar and 101.3 in Chakur, they added.
The Indian Meteorology Department has warned heavy rain for the next two days too.