The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed nine teams in the two flood-hit districts of East and West Midnapore in West Bengal. A senior NDRF official said that the deployed teams in both the districts have been geared up with all necessary equipment like Gemini boats and essential accessories for a rescue operation. He also said that 10 teams are currently on standby at various locations in the state, including Hooghly, New Jalpaiguri, North and South 24 Parganas, Kolkata and Siligudi.

Around three lakh people in East and West Midnapore have become homeless as vast areas of the two districts were flooded following heavy rains. The Sabang area in West Midnapore was the worst hit and it has been witnessing the flood havoc following breaches in embankments of the Keleghai and Kapaleshwari rivers at six places since Wednesday night, a source in the West Bengal administration said.