"I am falling ill in this bus. There are elderly people, women and children. It is getting dark and we are insecure in the middle of this jungle. My cellphone battery is running out. Soon I will lose all contact. Please help us,' Maya Roy (53) tells The Indian Express over her cellphone. A resident of Entally and a patient of hypertension, she is undergoing a nightmare since Saturday night. Without food and water, huddled inside a private bus, she is stuck up near the Lodhasuli forests in West Midnapore on the Orissa-Bengal border. She is among over 1,000 tourists on their way back from Puri to West Bengal. Packed in 20 private buses, they are stuck on a forest road, as flood waters have inundated East Midnapore which they were supposed to pass by. "Please give us some water. My son is falling ill. Besides these 20 private buses, there is a long queue of private vehicles. The police are not allowing our vehicles to move. We asked them for some food, but they didn't listen,' another passenger, Arindom Mondol, tells The Indian Express over phone. He is with his wife Chua and their 3-year-old son Archisman. Raj Kanojia, IG (Law and Order), said, "We are trying to help the tourists. I have given my personal phone number and the number of the police control room to the tourists." The passengers allege that the police have not provided them any security. The group of tourists, who had gone to Puri, got stranded after flash floods devastated districts of the state. As rail links between Orissa and West Bengal were cut off, they were stranded in their hotel room with depleting funds. "When it became clear that trains will not ply till next month as flood waters had washed away the tracks, the Orissa Government arranged for 20 private buses. We started our return journey on Saturday around 5 pm,' says Mondal. The convoy of the buses reached the border near Lodhasuli forests in the wee hours on Sunday, when it was stopped by the Bengal Police.