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District experiences heavy to extraordinarily heavy rain, man dies in a landslide in Vijayawada
Heavy to extraordinarily heavy rains, triggered by the deep despair that crossed the coastal area, battered the district. Continuous rainfall from Monday night time threw life out of gear in most of the mandals together with Vijayawada. Rainfall occurred all through the intervening night time of Monday and Tuesday.
The 50 mandals in the district skilled heavy rain in previous 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday, in response to the district administration. On a median, the district acquired 97.1 mm rainfall in the previous in the future. The earlier day solely 11.7 mm common rainfall was recorded.
During the identical interval, mandals of Vissannapeta (192 mm), Nuzvid (184 mm), Penugranchipolu (175 mm), Vatsavai (172 mm) and Bapulapadu (167 mm) and several other others together with Vijayawada acquired an enormous quantity of rainfall.
Later in the day, mandals of Nandigama and Jaggaiapeta acquired over 100 mm rainfall, whereas Chatrai and Kalidindi reported round 60 mm rainfall.
Meanwhile, the continual rainfall additionally precipitated landslides at two areas on Indrakeeladri in town. A person, T. Siva Shankar Rao (53), was killed when his home collapsed following a landslide. Rao was buried alive underneath the particles and was pulled out alive by the Bhavanipuram police and State Disaster Response Force groups who rushed to the spot. However, he breathed his final whereas being taken to hospital that declared him introduced useless. More than two homes have been broken in the incident and two others have been injured.
Meanwhile, at Kankadurga temple on Indrakeeladri, a minor landslide occurred. However, there was no loss of life or property. Boulders fell beside the makeshift queue traces on the ghat street resulting in the temple.
Waterlogged
Most of the roads in Vijayawada have been waterlogged. Pedestrians needed to wade by knee-deep water-filled roads to commute.
Bhavanipuram, Urmila Nagar, Rotary Nagar and several other different areas have been inundated. District Collector A.Md. Imtiaz inspected the areas in the night and mentioned that 35 motors have been getting used to take away water. VMC chief V. Prasanna Venkatesh additionally inspected inundated areas.
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