<p>Gadchiroli: More than 100 persons from a village were shifted to safety in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra on Friday after heavy rains caused a lake to swell, while an excavator machine bucket was used to get a pregnant woman to cross a flooded 'nullah' and damaged road.</p>.<p>Water flowed into homes and a residential school in Suryapalli village in Sironcha tehsil after a lake breached its banks due to heavy rain since late Thursday night, leading to 112 persons, including 76 students, being shifted to safety, a Gadchiroli District Disaster Management official told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>"Since yesterday, Sironcha has received 180 millimetres of rainfall. Such heavy rains often damage roads in the district, leading to some areas getting cut off," he said.</p>.<p>Gadchiroli Collector Sanjay Daine held a meeting of the District Disaster Management Cell during the day and directed the administration to provide immediate relief, including repairs of affected roads and creation of alternate routes.</p>.<p>In Kudkeli village in the district's Bhamragadh taluka, a pregnant woman crossed an overflowing drain and a damaged road after being made to sit in the bucket of an excavator machine as an ambulance sent for her could not reach the area amid heavy rain, officials said.</p>.Unyielding rain, floods leave Karnataka's coastal districts, Malnad on edge.<p>An ASHA worker and local health department staffers took her to a nearby hospital in an ambulance waiting on the other side after she crossed the drain perched in the excavator machine.</p>.<p>"The village does not have a hospital. The ASHA worker informed the community health officer (CHO) in Bhamragadh that a pregnant woman has to be admitted. The ambulance sent by the CHO could not reach the village due to heavy rains. Residents there deployed a JCB (excavator machine) to help the woman," Gadchiroli District Health Officer Dr Pratap Shinde told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>She was taken to the Bhamragadh gram hospital and is fine, Dr Shinde added.</p>
<p>Gadchiroli: More than 100 persons from a village were shifted to safety in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra on Friday after heavy rains caused a lake to swell, while an excavator machine bucket was used to get a pregnant woman to cross a flooded 'nullah' and damaged road.</p>.<p>Water flowed into homes and a residential school in Suryapalli village in Sironcha tehsil after a lake breached its banks due to heavy rain since late Thursday night, leading to 112 persons, including 76 students, being shifted to safety, a Gadchiroli District Disaster Management official told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>"Since yesterday, Sironcha has received 180 millimetres of rainfall. Such heavy rains often damage roads in the district, leading to some areas getting cut off," he said.</p>.<p>Gadchiroli Collector Sanjay Daine held a meeting of the District Disaster Management Cell during the day and directed the administration to provide immediate relief, including repairs of affected roads and creation of alternate routes.</p>.<p>In Kudkeli village in the district's Bhamragadh taluka, a pregnant woman crossed an overflowing drain and a damaged road after being made to sit in the bucket of an excavator machine as an ambulance sent for her could not reach the area amid heavy rain, officials said.</p>.Unyielding rain, floods leave Karnataka's coastal districts, Malnad on edge.<p>An ASHA worker and local health department staffers took her to a nearby hospital in an ambulance waiting on the other side after she crossed the drain perched in the excavator machine.</p>.<p>"The village does not have a hospital. The ASHA worker informed the community health officer (CHO) in Bhamragadh that a pregnant woman has to be admitted. The ambulance sent by the CHO could not reach the village due to heavy rains. Residents there deployed a JCB (excavator machine) to help the woman," Gadchiroli District Health Officer Dr Pratap Shinde told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>She was taken to the Bhamragadh gram hospital and is fine, Dr Shinde added.</p>