Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl was killed and her mother injured on Friday when the roof of their mud house collapsed in Narayanapet district of Telangana in heavy rains, even as the downpour caused havoc in Hyderabad.
The girl was killed when the rain-soaked roof of her home at Pulimamidi village collapsed on Friday morning, police said. Her mother is undergoing treatment at a government hospital, they said.
Heavy rains lashed Hyderabad and many other parts of the state since late Thursday, but there was a lull in the downpour this morning Gudimalkapur, Red Hills, Srinagar Colony, Sivarampally, Monda Market, Gananka Bhavan (Khairatabad), Vijay Nagar colony and other areas of Hyderabad received between 10 to 14 cm of rainfall since Thursday, official data said.
The IMD weather bulletin said Rajendranagar and Golconda here and Thimmajipet in Nagarkurnool district received 8 cms of rainfall, followed by Hakimpet (Hyderabad) and Julapalle in Peddapalle district (seven cm each).
School bus stuck in water, car swept away as rains batter city
A school bus was stuck in the middle of an inundated road in Trimulgherry, while a car was partially swept into a canal at the same spot on Friday due to the impact of torrential rains that have lashed Hyderabad from Saturday night. The school bus, ferrying children of DRS International School, apparently had a battery problem after it passed through waist high water running across the road near Manasarovar Heights in Trimulgherry around 7.30 am.
Earlier, around 2.30am, a car that was attempting to cross the same spot was swept off the road into the drainage canal, but held from being washed away by a safety net that had been put across the canal. The driver managed to get out of the car, local residents said.
As for the students in the school bus, another bus was called in and they were shifted to safety after having to wait for about an hour. The canal has been overflowing dangerously whenever it rains heavily. Tuesday night’s rains had caused a similar situation with two cars getting stuck at the same point late in the night.
Across the city, the rains continued till early morning, with the rainfall surpassing Tuesday night’s rainfall by a huge margin.
About 200 houses I Hyderabad’s M S Maktha area were inundated early on Friday after a protective wall of a canal connected to Hussain Sagar Lake partially collapsed in heavy rains, official sources said. The rains also led to waterlogging in low-lying areas of the city, they said.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is carrying out operations to remove knee deep water in some areas, they said.
GHMC Commissioner D S Lokesh Kumar held a teleconference with senior officials of the civic body and directed them to take necessary steps to clear waterlogging and fallen trees, the sources said.
Mayor B Rammohan, accompanied by officials, visited several inundated areas and ensured dispatch of disaster response teams to the affected areas, they said.
Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl was killed and her mother injured on Friday when the roof of their mud house collapsed in Narayanapet district of Telangana in heavy rains, even as the downpour caused havoc in Hyderabad.
The girl was killed when the rain-soaked roof of her home at Pulimamidi village collapsed on Friday morning, police said. Her mother is undergoing treatment at a government hospital, they said.
Heavy rains lashed Hyderabad and many other parts of the state since late Thursday, but there was a lull in the downpour this morning Gudimalkapur, Red Hills, Srinagar Colony, Sivarampally, Monda Market, Gananka Bhavan (Khairatabad), Vijay Nagar colony and other areas of Hyderabad received between 10 to 14 cm of rainfall since Thursday, official data said.
The IMD weather bulletin said Rajendranagar and Golconda here and Thimmajipet in Nagarkurnool district received 8 cms of rainfall, followed by Hakimpet (Hyderabad) and Julapalle in Peddapalle district (seven cm each).
About 200 houses I Hyderabad’s M S Maktha area were inundated early on Friday after a protective wall of a canal connected to Hussain Sagar Lake partially collapsed in heavy rains, official sources said. The rains also led to waterlogging in low-lying areas of the city, they said.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is carrying out operations to remove knee deep water in some areas, they said.
GHMC Commissioner D S Lokesh Kumar held a teleconference with senior officials of the civic body and directed them to take necessary steps to clear waterlogging and fallen trees, the sources said.
Mayor B Rammohan, accompanied by officials, visited several inundated areas and ensured dispatch of disaster response teams to the affected areas, they said.
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