The coastal town of Chiplun in Ratnagiri, some 250 kilometres from Mumbai, seems to be among the worst-affected as the Konkan coast of Maharashtra faces catastrophic rain and flooding.
A terrifying video from Chiplun shows a few people trying to pull up a woman from a flooded area using what appears to be a rope. The woman, in the 11-second video, can be seen clinging on to what appears to a rope as she is pulled up. But just as she nears the terrace of the building, the rescuers lose grip and she falls into the flood waters.
More than 50 per cent area of Chiplun, which has a population of over 70,000, has got submerged in flood waters, news agency PTI reported. More than 5,000 people are stranded.
