Officials said the villages of the border town were hit by unprecedented flash floods and it submerged several villages on the intervening night of July 26-27 and an NDRF team was rushed from the nearest location at Varanasi on Tuesday night.
"The operation has ended now and the affected people have been brought to safer places," National Disaster Response Force chief O P Singh told PTI.
The flood waters entered houses in the areas of Jagdiva, Ghannore, Jharwa, Arri, Kepsewa, Dablawa, Charigawa, Dhanora and locals were marooned in no time, they said.
Forty-four flood rescue teams of the NDRF have been pre-positioned in various flood prone areas of the country like Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal to assist state administrations in rescue and relief work.