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															<h2 itemprop="description" class="synopsis">The Indians identified Nikhil Bhatia and Shalini, both students at the Texas A&amp;M University, were rescued from the Lake Bryan, where they had gone swimming, on Saturday </h2>
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<p>According to the Bryan police, an officer patrolling the lake was flagged down by a person who said two people swimming in the lake were in distress. The person who alerted the officer was with the two students, both in their 20s. He had managed to rescue one of them, while the police officer rescued the other one and treated both of them with Cardiopulmonary resuscitation until medical help arrived, the police said.</p>
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<p>Nikhil&#8217;s mother, Suman Bhatia, has arrived from India. Shalini&#8217;s brother will be arriving tomorrow, the Consulate said. Around 13 million people were battling &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; flooding and torrential rains in the storm-ravaged Texas where Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc, turning streets into raging rivers and claiming at least nine lives.</p>
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<p>India&#8217;s Consul-General in Houston Anupam Ray has been in touch with the students and monitoring the evacuation process. Hundreds of Indian students, who were stranded in their homes and ran out of food, are being helped by the consulate.</p>
<p>Ray said members of the Indian graduate students&#8217; organisations had reached out to him through <a href="http://indianexpress.com/about/facebook/">Facebook</a> last night. Despite all roads being inundated with water and closed for traffic, Ray personally went to the apartment complex where more than 250 Indian students were stranded.</p>
<p>According to local community leaders, at least 100,000 of Indian-Americans live in and around Houston area have been badly hit by the hurricane. &#8220;We are nervous. We are increasingly getting worried,&#8221; said Vivek Mehra, who lives in Cypress area of Houston.</p>
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