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A 75-year-old pistillate was rescued safely aft her location collapsed successful Sholinghur municipality successful Ranipet connected Wednesday owed to continuous rain. Revenue officials said that the victim, S. Annam Ammal, was surviving unsocial successful her location successful Esayanur village. After continuous rainfall lashed the municipality implicit the past fewer days, the tiled extortion of the location collapsed connected the septuagenarian. The incidental happened astir 11.30 a.m.
Immediately, neighbours rescued her from the rubble. On being alerted, Sholinghur constabulary inspected the spot and admitted her to Government Taluk Hospital successful the town. Doctors astatine the infirmary said she was stable. A lawsuit was registered.
Similarly, the retaining partition of Sri Yoga Anjaneya temple, atop a hillock successful Sholinghur town, collapsed successful the rain. The decades-old-wall is astir 15 feet high. Police said nary 1 was injured successful the incident, which occurred astir noon. Key towns, similar Arakkonam, Arcot, Tiruvannamalai, Cheyyar, Tirupattur, Vellore, Ambur, and Arani witnessed continuous rainfall connected Wednesday. Many low-lying areas were inundated.
In Tirupattur, residents staged a protestation by planting saplings connected pot-holed stretches successful Kodumampalli colony adjacent Tirupattur municipality condemning authoritative apathy to relay cardinal roads. Likewise, residents successful Ozur colony adjacent Amirthi Zoological Park successful Vellore blocked Odugathur Main Road successful protestation against non-removal of encroachments astir lakes.
Based connected orders from Collector K. Tharpagaraj, a flood alert to villages on banks of Thenpennai stream has been issued by the Water Resources Department (WRD), arsenic 15,000 cusecs of h2o was being released from Sathanur dam.
