The Indian Air Force today safely evacuated a woman and her twins and another pregnant woman from the Nana Matra village in Vinchia of Rajkot district of Gujarat which was flooded due to heavy rains. The village had been cut off from the rest of the district due to the floods.
As soon as a message about to two women who were in critical condition and to deliver was received at 4.30 pm, a Chetak helicopter was sent from Jamnagar, said Defence spokesperson Abhishek Matiman in a release.
“By 1715 hrs the Chetak already overhead looking for a safe patch to land. The mother, with her twins and an attendant were instantaneously put into the aircraft and flown out to safety…The aircraft landed at Jasdan where they were handed over to the medical team already waiting,” it reported.
The helicopter then returned to Nana Matra, this time picking up the other pregnant woman who was bleeding profusely. She was flown across the river where a medical team was waiting with an ambulance, it said.
Incessant rains have been lashing Gujarat for the last two days.