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With the flood level successful Krishna stream reaching the 2nd informing level, officials stopped devotees from taking bath successful the stream connected Sunday.
Officials arranged information on the stream bund arsenic it was successful spate owed to incessant rains that person been lashing successful the catchment areas for the past fewer days.
“We person closed Punnami ghat, Durga, Padmavathi and different ghats owed to floods. Security has been stepped up astatine Ibrahimpatnam and Bhavanipuram. We are not allowing the devotees to instrumentality bath astatine the ghats arsenic a precautionary measure,” said an serviceman monitoring the concern astatine Punnami ghat.
Devotees tin instrumentality ablution bath astatine Kalyanakatta. Expert swimmers, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and constabulary person been arranged astatine the ghats, the serviceman said.
Meanwhile, the Krishna territory officials sounded alert arsenic the Irrigation authorities released 6.50 lakh cusecs from Prakasam Barrage connected Monday.
Collector D.K. Balaji reviewed the concern with the Revenue, Police and Irrigation officials and asked them to beryllium alert. He asked the villagers staying successful low-lying areas to determination to safer places.
Speaking to The Hindu, Avanigadda Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) T. Vidya Sree said constabulary evacuated the radical residing successful Pata Yadlalanka island. “We arranged boats and shifted the land villagers to the rehabilitation shelters acceptable up astatine Avanigadda. Boating has been suspended successful the river,” the DSP said.
Villagers staying successful the downstream of Krishna were asked not to transverse the overflowing canals and the stream connected countrymade boats, the constabulary said.
