Outstanding work by Indian Navy.
Brave men of Indian security forces are trying their best to rescue trapped people in Kerala which is reeling under unprecedented flood. One such officer is Captain P Rajkumar (Shaurya Chakra) of Indian Navy, who managed to save 26 people in a single sortie on Friday.
He showed great skills to land the Seaking 42B chopper on a narrow rooftop. According to Indian Navy, " Yesterday Captain P Rajkumar Shaurya Chakra winched up 26 people from a SeaKing 42B helicopter, in extremely challenging conditions hovering between trees and in the limits of man and machine".
Navy spokesperson also re-tweeted a video of Rajkumar's heroic landing.
Rajkumar and his men showed exemplary valour during the Ochki cyclone storm, when they took midnight sorties to rescue trapped fishermen ignoring choppy seas. For this work, Rajkumar was awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
As the flood situation continued to remain appalling all across Kerala, Indian Navy deployed 18 more teams at various locations on Friday to augment the rescue operations in the state. Southern Naval Command had deployed a total of 58 rescue and diving teams with Gemini boats in multiple location but seeing the worsening situation, 18 more teams have been pressed into service. Navy is also readying 25 more rescue teams with boats for deployment on request of state government with fresh incessant rain alerts.
On Friday, a total 310 people have been rescued by the boats and 176 by aircraft. "Till date, more than 3,000 people have been rescued by the Southern Naval Command and continuous efforts are on to bring the flood affected people to safety and also provide them essential relief supplies such as food and water," said a Navy statement.
Air rescue has been carried out at various places of the three badly affected districts; namely, Thrissur, Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta. Various aircraft including ALH, Sea King, Chetak and MI 17 (of IAF) were able to rescue more than 176 people till now. Food was airdropped on the roof tops of various houses and churches till now. A total of 50 air sorties amounting to 80 hours have been flown.
With inputs from Sumit Kumar Singh
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