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Gujarat floods: 18 of a family killed, toll rises to 119

-The Times of India

PALANPUR: Tragedy struck Khariya village in Gujarat's Banaskantha on Wednesday when 18 bodies — all close relatives — were recovered from a river bank, taking the flood related death toll since the beginning of monsoon to 119. The toll may go up as rescue operations are on.

Villagers in Khariya watched in disbelief as the bodies were found one after another from the slush and placed in a line. The victims, all from the OBC Thakor community, included eight women and an eight-year-old girl.

Khariya was among 30 villages where an alert had been sounded after water level in the Banas river swelled due to influx of water from the dams following heavy downpour. "We suspect that they people were swept away after Tuesday midnight," V M Patel, deputy mamlatdar, Kankrej, told TOI.

Two Army columns, three NDRF teams and a BSF team are engaged in the rescue and relief operations, and are being aided by 10 IAF choppers in Banaskantha.

The Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway was flooded after several villages near Dholka were inundated following release of 1.24 lakh cusecs water from the Dharoi dam. Ahmedabad collector Avantika Singh Aulakh said at least 3,858 people in 20 villages had been taken to safer locations in the district.

Three days after their village, Dabhipura in Dantiwada taluka of Banaskantha, was inundated, families returned home on Wednesday. "We have lost everything. Our grain stock and utensils have been washed away. Our houses have been severely damaged," said one of the villagers.

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