Four persons including three children were killed while railway and air traffic was severely affected following heavy overnight rains in the city, officials said today.
Ten trains were cancelled and nine others got delayed as railway tracks were submerged. The city received 130 mm rains throughout the last night, railway officials said. The top portion of a temple fell on its adjoining house killing four member of the family on the spot at Dudeshwar area of the city in the wee hours today, they said. Operations at the international terminal of the Sardar Patel Airport here have been hampered due to water logging following which electricity supply to the terminal had to be cut off as a precautionary measure, airport officials said, adding that one international flight has been cancelled.
There has been water-logging in various areas of the city which include Chandkheda, Ranip, Sabarmati and other low lying areas, municipal officials said. Six broad gauge trains originating from the city have been cancelled which include Ahmedabad-Okha, Ahmedabad- Viramgam, Ahmedabad-Veraval,Ahmedabad-Valsad, Jamnagar-Surat, Ahmedabad-Mehsana and Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar. Whereas, nine other trains like Kutch express, Saurashtra Mail, Bhavnagar Express, Saurashtra Janta Express, Ashram Express, Somnath Express, Rajdhani Express are running two to four hours behind schedule. Four meter-gauge trains have been cancelled due to water logging on railway tracks.
Meanwhile, Ahmedabad-Dubai flight of Emirates has been cancelled, while other domestic flights have got delayed. The passengers were seen traversing through knee-deep waters at the airport carrying the baggage on their head. Meanwhile the weather department has warned of heavy to very heavy rains in the next 36 hours at many places in Gujarat. Moderate to heavy rains with thundershower are likely to occur at most places of North, South Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch region, they said.