Alert sounded on A.P.-Telangana border as Munneru stream swells

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Officials monitoring the flood concern    successful  Munneru watercourse  from the span  adjacent   Penuganchiprolu colony   successful  NTR District connected  Thursday.

Officials monitoring the flood concern successful Munneru watercourse from the span adjacent Penuganchiprolu colony successful NTR District connected Thursday.

An alert has been sounded astatine Penuganchiprolu, Keesara and different villages successful NTR District connected Thursday (October 30) aft Munneru watercourse swelled owed to the incessant rains upstream. Police, Revenue, NDRF and SDRF teams were monitoring the flood concern utilizing drones.

Nandigama MLA Tangirala Sowmya, Commissioner of Police S.V. Rajashekar Babu, Collector G. Lakshmisha and different officers visited Penuganchiprolu village. “Drones were being utilized to show the travel of Munneru stream. Police pickets person been arranged to forestall villagers from crossing the overflowing streams and rivulets,” Mr. Rajashekar Babu told The Hindu.

Locals said the streams were successful spate astatine the low-level span betwixt Penuganchiprolu and Madhira, Lingala causeway and besides betwixt Penuganchiprolu and Vatsavai, disrupting postulation betwixt A.P. and Telangana.

Many streams were overflowing successful Khammam, Warangal, Bhadradri-Kothagudem and different districts of Telangana owing to Cyclone Montha, the officials said.

“About 50 families were shifted to rehabilitation centres arsenic flood h2o entered villages. NDRF 10th Battalion and SDRF teams person been deployed successful the villages arsenic a precautionary measure,” the Commissioner of Police said.

Published - October 30, 2025 07:11 p.m. IST

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