In a much-unexpected outcome of floods due to incessant rains in Maharashtra, the Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express suffered from an indescribable situation on Saturday early morning. The train, carrying around 700 passengers on board, got stranded on the tracks between the Badlapur and Vangani stations in Maharashtra. The view of the tracks and the surroundings being totally submerged in floodwater is distressing and shocking. However, much to the relief of the passengers and to their relatives, the stranded passengers could be rescued and provided with necessary services to bring the situation back to normalcy.
The latest update on the rescue operation of the passengers states that a special train is about to be sent for the transportation of the stranded passengers which will leave from Kalyan to Kolhapur with the passengers. Before this, as informed by the Central Railways CPRO, around 700 passengers were evacuated from the trapped Mahalaxmi Express.
The Saturday morning showed the trapped passengers of the train spending helpless and distressed moments as the train was not in the state of moving with floodwater inundating the berths inside the train. It was a time when Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis had taken to appeal the stranded citizens in the Mahalaxmi Express train to not to worry. Immediate measures of rescuing the passengers were assured by the CM with helps from NDRF, Army, Navy, local administration, police and railways team.
The latest update tweeted by the Maharastra CM gives a glimpse of the rescue operations being successfully accomplished by the rescue teams:
https://twitter.com/Dev_Fadnavis/status/1155054786175127552
Among the passengers rescued by the NDRF, nine pregnant women too were included which were safely evacuated and brought to a safe zone. The rescue team also included 37 doctors with a gynecologist tom make sure that the pregnant passengers are safely rescued.