IAF Airlifted a Pregnant Woman & Her Child from a Flooded Chennai Area

Stepping up rescue and relief operations in the rain-hit city, a coordinated team of the defence forces and the NDRF  rescued over 270 stranded people, including a seven-month-pregnant woman who was airlifted from one of the worst-affected areas.

Sukanya (29), who is seven months pregnant, along with her three-year-old child was airlifted from her home in Medumbakkam, near Guindy, one of the worst-affected areas in Chennai.

    She was brought Tambaram Air Base in a Chetak helicopter, and then immediately taken to the Base Hospital.

“We moved to the fourth floor of our house as the first and the second floor have become inundated. There is no electricity in our area for the last two days.
“We had lost all hope until they rescued us today,” she told PTI.

Here is a video which shows how the Indian Air Force  airlifted a Pregnant Woman & Her Child from a Flooded Chennai Area:

    “We sent about 120 rescued people to Delhi carried by a C-130J (Super Hercules) this morning and another 20 have been sent to Arakonnam, from where they will fly out in different aircraft,” a senior IAF official said.

    Among those evacuated were 50 stranded students from SRM University.

    With heavy rains lashing the capital city, especially in the last three days, several areas are inundated, with water reaching up to almost second storey in certain areas.

    “We are fully prepared to tackle this situation and carrying out regular sorties. We performed several relief and recce sorties today, as we have to save those who are badly stranded as well as give food items to those who are stuck in their homes,” Air Commodore Rippon Gupta said at the Tamabaram Air Base.

Citizens of Chennai dramatically pull out a submerged bus from flooded subway:

People of Chennai came out together to help the affected where the relief forces could not reach. Two men were also stuck on top of the bus. It seems they were the driver and conductor of the state government’s bus. To save them, people tied a rope to two ends of the bus while the other end was pulled by a group of people.

Watch the video here how people saved a submerged bus: