Chennai floods : IAF carry out rescue and relief operations
According to Indian Air Force officials, 22 people, including 12 infants were rescued to safety while food packets and water were airdropped from a helicopter that took off from the Tambaram air base.
Normal life continued to be seriously affected in vast parts of Tamil Nadu as rain continued to pour for days inundating large areas.
The situation has forced the authorities to shut down educational institutions while surface transport continued to suffer.
So far 71 people have died in rain-related incidents.
The weather office forecast heavy downpour in the next three days in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
