People on social media quipped that it was a display of 'flood tourism' as the city received heavy rainfall recently.
A video of foreign tourists standing on the metal scoop of a bulldozer in flood-hit Vadodara as they are being driven around has gone viral on social media. The video, shared by X page Our Vadodara, shows around half a dozen people standing on the metal scoop as the bulldozer drives around a partially flooded road.
"Flood" Tourism on a “Bulldozer"Amid flood conditions in Vadodara, a video has gone viral showing foreigners touring the city on a bulldozer. Well, at least they came!
"ફ્લડ" ટુરિઝમ ઓન “ બુલડોઝર “
વડોદરા માં પૂર ની સ્થિતી માં વડોદરા માં પધારેલા ફોરેનર્સ બુલડોઝર માં વડોદરા… pic.twitter.com/5oqmHmxnwQ
— Our Vadodara (@ourvadodara) August 30, 2024
Rains abated in most parts of Gujarat on Friday morning, but several towns and villages witnessed water logging due to swollen rivers.
Vadodara city, which witnessed a flood-like situation due to the swelling of the Vishwamitri river, is slowly limping back to normalcy as water has receded in most parts of the city, the city civic authorities stated in a release.
The river, which was flowing above the danger mark at 37 feet, was at 23.16 feet on Friday, and of 6,073 persons rescued and relocated, 1,610 have returned to their homes, it said.
Cyclone Asna, formed over the coast of Kutch in Gujarat earlier during the day, has moved into the Arabian sea towards Oman without leaving any major impact on the region.
As a precautionary measure, the local administration had shifted nearly 3,500 persons to safer locations and had asked people living in huts and mud houses to take shelter in other buildings, said Kutch district collector Amit Arora.
“Since the cyclone has already entered the sea and is heading towards Oman, there was an impact on the coast. Except for some rain and winds blowing at considerable speed, there was no impact here. There was no immediate news about injury or death or collapse of any major structure,” said Arora.
In a release issued on Friday evening, IMD said the deep depression over Kutch coast and adjoining areas of Pakistan had “intensified into Cyclonic Storm Asna and lay centered at 11:30 am over the same region nearly 190 km west-northwest of Bhuj”.
