At least four people are feared dead after heavy rain lashed Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district and other parts of the state on Thursday, reported ANI.
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Highways and railway tracks were inundated, disrupting road and rail traffic. Police with the help of locals rescued the passengers.
The K L Rao Sagar Project, downstream Nagarjuna Sagar, has been receiving heavy water inflows due to downpour in the catchment areas of neighbouring Telangana. 2 lakh cusecs were thus released into the sea. With Munneru rivulet also in spate, the Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada is full to the brim.
Krishna floodwaters were let out at the Prakasam barrage here and at Pulichintala reservoir in Guntur district and also the Godavari waters at Dowlaiswaram barrage near Rajahmundry.
Water in the Basavannavagu and Yerravagu streams in Guntur surged leading to inundation of villages nearby.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu convened a review meeting on the rescue efforts taken up in rain-affected districts.
Revenue officials are helping the people in the inundated areas with relief work providing them with food packets and drinking water packets.
The well-marked low pressure area over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining areas will move further west.
The government opened seven relief camps at Narsaraopet, Sattenapalli, Vatticherukuru, Phirangipuram, Rajupalem and Medikonduru for the flood-hit people in Palnadu region.
Towns in Guntur, including Chilakaluripet, Gurazala, Narsaraopet, Piduguralla, Sattenapalli and Tenali faced a heavy onslaught of rain causing major flooding in the areas. Road traffic between Hyderabad and Guntur came to a standstill. The APSRTC bus station in Machilipatnam was marooned following heavy rains, paralysing the services.
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Guntur was the worst-affected, with two deaths being reported from the district.
