Gandhinagar, July 24 - More than 3,000 families from villages in Gujarat's flood-ravaged Junagadh, Porbander and Jamnagar districts have been shifted to safer places by Army rescue teams since Thursday morning, officials said Friday.

A National Disaster Management Authority team from New Delhi has arrived in Junagadh to help with the rescue operations in the flood affected villages. Junagadh received almost 25 cm rainfall Thursday, worsening the flood situation in the district, a senior official in the chief minister's office said.

Army rescue teams have been deployed in the worst affected regions, while the state government has sent its own teams to the flood affected areas of Junagadh, Jamnagar, Veraval and Mangrol regions with boats and life saving equipment to evacuate those marooned on the rooftops of their houses.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) office in Ahmedabad has said extremely heavy rainfall would continue to lash parts of Saurashtra region Friday.