A antheral was reportedly washed distant successful an overflowing watercourse adjacent Kanchikacherla successful NTR District connected Sunday (September 21). Road connectivity had been cut-off to galore villages connected A.P.-Telangana borderline successful NTR and Eluru districts arsenic incessant rains near rivulets successful spate.
The incidental occurred erstwhile the victim, K. Srinivas of Bathinapadu of Kanchikacherla mandal, was crossing Nakkala Vaagu, which was overflowing connected the road, locals said.
Road connectivity has been cut-off to astir 15 villages successful Tiruvur, Gampalagudem, Kanchikacherla, Kambhampadu and Mylavaram mandals owed to dense rains.
Pickets arranged
Police and Revenue officials arranged pickets arsenic Munneru and Kattaleru had inundated the ‘saptas’ (low lying bridges). At Choutapalli, Vedulla Vaagu was successful spate, villagers said.
In the Agency areas of Eluru district, galore streams were overflowing, causing terrible hardship to the tribespeople.
Police, Revenue, Panchayat Raj, ITDA and different section officials cautioned the villagers astir the dense rainfall forecast, and asked them not to transverse canals and rivulets.
Alert issued
Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA) officials connected Sunday alerted the nationalist implicit dense rainfall forecast successful the State implicit the adjacent fewer days.
APSDMA managing manager Prakhar Jain said mean to dense rains volition hap successful ASR, Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli, Parvathipuram Manyam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts successful the adjacent 24 hours. Similarly, airy to mean rains are forecast successful Konaseema, Kakinada, East and West Godavari, Krishna, NTR, Guntur, Bapatla, Nellore and Prakasam districts, Mr. Jain said.
