Heavy rains are lashing several parts of Telangana, inundating low-lying areas, paralysing normal life and disrupting road and rail traffic, while the weather office has issued a red alert for 11 districts.
Since Saturday evening, torrential rains, triggered by the Bay of Bengal depression and the monsoon, have been lashing Hyderabad, surrounding districts and other parts of the state. Some parts of the affected districts are facing flooding.
Some residential colonies in the state capital and other affected districts were flooded, causing severe inconvenience to residents.
Overflowing lakes, reservoirs and streams have isolated villages at a few places in Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts.
In Warangal district, a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation bus was caught in floods at Topanapalli. The passengers spent the night in the bus as floodwaters from a lake had submerged the road.
Several trains were stopped, cancelled and diverted as the railway track was damaged due to floods at some places in Mahabubabad district.
In view of the heavy rains, the state government has opened a special control room at the state secretariat to monitor the situation.
The Disaster Management Department has opened the control room with the phone number 040-23454088.
Two cars and a rickshaw driver were swept away by floodwaters in Kodad town of Suryapet district. The body of a man was found in one of the cars. The fate of the other people in cars and tricycles is not known.
Vehicular traffic on the Khammam-Suryapet highway was disrupted as the highway was submerged in flood water.
Meanwhile, the water level was rising in the Godavari river at Bhadrachalam in Bhadradri Kothagudem district. The water level was 27 feet on Sunday morning.
According to the Telangana Development Planning Society, Huzurnagar in Suryapet district received the highest rainfall of 299.8 mm from 8:30 pm on Saturday to 6:00 am on Sunday.
In Mahabubabad district, 298 mm of rainfall was recorded at Inugurthy. In Suryapet district, 297.8 mm of rainfall was recorded at Chilkur. Some areas in Mahabubabad, Khammam and Suryapet districts received 277-296 mm of rainfall.
The weather office has issued a red alert for 11 districts – Adilabad, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Mahbubabad, Jangaon, Kamareddy, Mahabubnagar, Nagarkurnool, Wanaparthy, Narayanpet and Jogulamba Gadwal. These districts are likely to receive extremely heavy rains at isolated places in the next 24 hours.
The weather bureau has forecast heavy to very heavy rains in 11 other districts.
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