Rains Today LIVE Updates: Heavy rain lashes parts of Telangana, kills one in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada

People wade through a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall, at Mithali Nagar, Meerpet, Near Hyderabad, Telangana, Sunday (PTI Photo)

Red alert issued in Telangana: Heavy rains battered Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) sounding red alerts for both the states. IMD forecasts heavy to extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places in Bhadradri Kothagudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Medak and other districts from August 13-14. Normal life was also disrupted owing to waterlogging on arterial roads and causing several rivulets and other water bodies to overflow.

Heavy rain kills one in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada: Incessant rainfall in Andhra led to severe waterlogging, which killed a 51-year-old, who accidentally fell into an underground drainage, said the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation on Thursday. The local body said that the cleaning work of the drainage near Gulammohiddin Street was underway when Rao fell into it as the area was waterlogged. “Heavy rains lashed Vijayawada in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving several areas waterlogged and claiming the life of Rao,” the VMC said in an official release. The water level, due to heavy rainfall which started at 9 pm on Tuesday, rose nearly three feet above the road, said the corporation. The VMC has urged residents in low-lying areas to move to safer places.

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