Gujarat is battered with heavy monsoon rains with flood-like situation in multiple cities of the state. Heavy to very heavy rain pounded Junagarh and Navsari districts triggering a flood-like situation in urban areas and isolating villages amid rising water levels in dams and rivers surging to danger levels. In Junagadh district, heavy rains displayed their fury with cars being washed away by rivers.
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00:00 Gujarat is battered with heavy monsoon rains with flood-like situation in multiple cities
00:09 of the state.
00:10 Heavy to very heavy rain pounded Junagadh and Nafsari districts, triggering a flood-like
00:15 situation in urban areas and isolating villages amid rising water levels in dams and rivers
00:21 surging to danger levels.
00:23 In Junagadh district, heavy rains displayed their fury, with cars and cattle being washed
00:28 away by rivers.
00:30 The Indian Meteorological Department has issued red, orange and yellow alerts for various
00:35 Gujarat districts till 24 July.
00:38 Speaking about the present situation in Junagadh, Gujarat Minister Raghav Patel said, "Junagadh
00:44 received heavy rainfall today.
00:46 Water in large amounts has entered the city.
00:49 The people are safe.
00:50 However, NDRF and SDRF teams are deployed there.
00:54 In South Gujarat's Nafsari district, normal life was thrown out of gear due to torrential
00:58 downpour.
00:59 The Nafsari and Jalalpur talukas received 303 and 276 mm of rainfall respectively.
01:07 Vehicular movement was disrupted as water entered the engines of vehicles.
01:11 Traffic snarled at National Highway 48 of Gujarat due to rain.
01:15 However, the vehicular movement resumed later.
01:18 Due to heavy rains in Junagadh, CM Bhupendra Patel cancelled all his programs and called
01:23 an emergency meeting at the collector's office.
01:25 Four municipal teams, 25,000 food packets and NDRF teams from Rajkot district are also
01:32 being sent to Junagadh for relief and rescue work.
01:35 More than 25,000 food packets were being prepared with the support of various social organisations
01:41 to deliver food to the affected people in Junagadh district.
01:45 According to the IMD, light or moderate, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated
01:50 heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Saurashtra and Kachchh on July
01:54 24, Gujarat region on July 23.
01:57 A red alert has been issued for Junagadh, Jamnagar, Devbhumi, Dwarka, Kachchh, Valsar
02:03 and Nafsari.
02:04 The Met Department also warned fishermen to not venture along and off the North Gujarat
02:09 coast from July 22 to July 26, saying squally weather conditions were very likely to prevail
02:15 during this period.
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