Tea vendor manages traffic on flooded road amid rains in Indore; netizens laud selfless act
Indore(PTI): A tea vendor played a good samaritan by managing traffic on an inundated road amid heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city.
A photograph of tea vendor getting drenched while sitting on a bench placed on an open manhole is going viral on social media, with netizens lauding his selfless act and at the same time criticising the Indore Municipal Corporation.
The incident took place on Monday when heavy rains pounded the city, leaving roads waterlogged.
Talking to PTI, Rahul, who runs a tea stall in Bhamori area of the city, on Tuesday said, "Due to heavy rains, water was flowing from three sides on the road in front of my shop and many passing vehicles were getting stuck and had to be pushed out."
Rahul said he opened the lid of a manhole on the road and put a bench over it to drain out the water from the road.
"I sat on the bench and managed the traffic to ensure that no fell into the pit and got injured because of the heavy rains," he said.
It took nearly two hours for the accumulated water to drain out of the road, the tea vendor said, pointing out that no municipal staffer had reached the spot.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
