Ahmedabad, July 8 -- At least nine people died and more than 3,500 others were evacuated after record rainfall triggered widespread flooding across Gujarat's Surat district over the past two days, officials said on Wednesday.

Surat city received 358 mm (14.09 inches) of rainfall between 6 am on Tuesday and 6 am on Wednesday.

Surat Collector Tejash Parmar said the nine deaths across the district were caused by rain-related incidents such as electrocution, drowning, lightning strikes and falling trees.

The state has deployed 12 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams and 27 State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) platoons, with Surat having the highest deployment of two NDRF teams and five SDRF platoons.

According to officials at the...