Date:19/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/19/stories/2008091962081800.htm

National

Lifeline from above

— PHOTOS: PTI and AP

FLOOD HAVOC: IAF personnel rescue a person from the floods on the Ahmedabad-Bhuj national highway at Majethi village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat on Thursday. (Right) Women wade through flood waters to collect drinking water near Lakhtar town in the same district. Heavy rain continued to lash parts of the State leading to evacuation of more than 4,500 people in the district.