A dense spell of rainfall precocious connected Friday nighttime (September 19, 2025) wreaked havoc successful Rayachoti municipality of Annamayya district, leaving 4 persons dead, and 1 miss kid missing successful 2 abstracted incidents.
When the territory medication was engaged deploying the rescue teams, calamity struck the S.N. Colony locality of Rayachoti. Sheikh Munni (27) and her six-year-old son, Sheikh Ilyas, were caught successful the swirling floodwaters.
A section youth, Vangal Ganesh (30), rushed to their rescue. But the trio was pulled into the swirling waters of an unfastened drain. After a frantic hunt by the constabulary and officials, their bodies were recovered astatine a drain down a backstage relation hallway astir midnight.
In different incident, an autorickshaw carrying 7 schoolchildren from a tuition centre was swept distant astatine a colony roadworthy adjacent the DIET College. The operator could not announcement a ditch successful the mediate of the road. After falling into the ditch, the car was pulled into an adjoining overflowing drain. Local radical rushed to the spot, and managed to prevention six children, portion 1 girl, identified arsenic Yamini (8) of Madhavaram colony nearby, was pulled into the vortex. Her assemblage was traced successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday (September 20, 2025).
The treble calamity led to a heavy daze among the residents and officials of Rayachoti town. District Collector Nishant Kumar and elder officials from the Revenue and Police Departments visited the mishap sites and supervised the alleviation measures. The Collector said that, arsenic per the directions of the State Government, the families of the deceased would beryllium provided with fiscal assistance immediately.
Transport Minister Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy, who incidentally is the MLA of Rayachoti, rushed to the municipality to instrumentality banal of the situation. He is expected to sojourn the residences of the deceased and console the household members.
Meanwhile, the rainfall subsided successful the Annamayya territory by the aboriginal hours of Saturday (September 20, 2025). The territory medication alerted the gross officials astatine the mandal and colony levels to show the flood concern adjacent to the reservoirs and on the banks of the Bahuda river, and marque indispensable arrangements for the evacuation of the affected radical arsenic and erstwhile required.
