Saswad: Forty kilometres from Pune city, in Saswad taluka, around four people are missing. The Komanes the seventh descendants of freedom fighter Umaji Naik say they have had to conduct the funeral of their dear one on the road. With their own home flooded, they have taken shelter at a neighbour's place.

Smita alias Chakuli Ananta Komane, 22, a second year of BSc student, was sitting outside her house, and studying when she noticed water levels rising. She alerted the villagers, but while trying to help others she and her grandmother Gajarabai, 75, got carried away by the water.