Hundreds of people from flood-hit parts of Andhra Pradesh‘s Vijayawada were rescued by NDRF and SDRF teams on Monday while five helicopters of the Indian Air Force and the Navy and nearly 190 boats were pressed into service for rescue and relief operations, officials said.
Three helicopters from the IAF and two from the Navy were deployed for airdropping food items and for airlifting people stranded in inundated areas. Drones were also being used to drop food packets in Singh Nagar, one of the worst-affected areas in Vijayawada.