A flood-like situation due to torrential rains prevailed in some places in Punjab on Saturday with the seasonal Ghaggar river inundating standing crops, including cotton and paddy, as Army and NDRF teams worked to save lives and properties.
The Ghaggar river overflowed in Patiala, Moga, Mansa, Sangrur, Ferozepur, Faridkot and Bathinda following heavy torrential rainfall, officials said.
Residents along the river have been alerted, they said.
Many villagers started moving to safer places with their belongings and livestock.
Army, National Disaster Response Force and state teams continued to plug the breaches in embankments of Ghaggar river at Moonak in Sangrur district, officials said.
They hope the waters will start receding in the next 24 hours. Several acres of land in these districts were submerged and officials were assessing the damage to the crops.
