CRPF conducts flood rescue operations
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 04 2024:
While informing that subsequent to heavy downpour in the last few days breaching embankments of some major rivers flowing through Imphal city and inundating many places; CRPF said its troops also rose to the occasion and carried out rescue operations.
In a release, quick action teams of the sector and 69 Bn CRPF, Mantripukhri led the unit commandant under the aegis of CRPF Manipur and Nagaland Sector IG responded immediately on receiving distress calls from the affected people and executed rescue operation at Thambalkhong in Imphal East on Wednesday.
The teams rescued several people including senior citizens, women and children who were stranded and evacuated them to a safe zone.
Besides saving lives, the teams of CRPF also helped the affected people in carrying out and salvaging some of their properties, it added.
The release further mentioned that in collaboration with the state authority led by Porompat SDC Sh Premananda, the troops distributed and delivered drinking water to those stranded.