The Indian city of Hyderabad witnessed torrential rain overnight on Saturday, which led to flooding in several parts of the state; many houses were inundated.
Shocking scenes of the devastation from different areas including Chandrayangutta, Nampally, Abids, Kothi, Basheerbagh, Khairatabad, Goshamahal and Vijayanagar have been doing the rounds on social media on Sunday.
#WATCH: Heavy rainfall in Hyderabad triggers water logging in parts of the city; visuals from Chandrayangutta area. #Telanagana (17.10) pic.twitter.com/awqPQEWmeN
— ANI (@ANI) October 18, 2020
Scattered vehicles due to heavy rain in #Hyderabad last night. #ptcsstory #HyderabadRains #Avaaz24 pic.twitter.com/SSw8vEX4Fd
— Avaaz24 (@avaaz24) October 18, 2020
Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) Mahender Reddy has alerted all police officials to monitor the situation in their respective areas.
"Keep monitoring the situation in your area as flash floods may trap people in low lying areas. Brief your staff to act accordingly and see that no inconvenience is caused to the citizens," Reddy said to Indian news agency IANS.
Rescue operations are underway to provide relief to people who have been stranded on the roads.
NDRF teams carry out rescue operation at Dabeerpura& Hafeez Baba Nagar. #Hyderabad has FOURTEEN boats right now- 4 NDRF, 5 of Tourism dept& 5 of GHMC. What we need right now are more boats. Time for additional central teams step in#HyderabadFloods pic.twitter.com/KsSPwEyrYg
— §umaiya khan❤ (@pathan_sumaya) October 18, 2020
Police in Abdullapurmet area, located on the outskirts of the city, extracted a car which had had become inundated by the deluge with the help of a JCB machine in Rachakonda district.
#WATCH Rachakonda: Abdullapurmet Police pulls out a car stuck in overflowing water with the help of a JCB machine. #Telangana (17.10) pic.twitter.com/AWEC4q1UQc
— ANI (@ANI) October 17, 2020
Several people, stranded in their homes, took to social media to post videos and pictures of their communities being flooded and cars floating.
After a bout of heavy rains last night, Chandrayangutta area of #Hyderabad has turned into a virtual island. Disaster Relief Teams are using boats to rescue stranded residents here. Water has been overflowing following the collapse of Balapur lake bund #HyderabadFloods pic.twitter.com/oj9mE4l5BL
— Swastika Das (@swastikadas95) October 18, 2020
Horrifying visuals from Baba Nagar coming in. Please pray for everyone, this flow is massive.
— Syed Aamir Quadri (@Syedquadri8686) October 18, 2020
#HyderabadFloods #HyderabadRains #Hyderabad #Hyderbadfloods pic.twitter.com/BvmFB0XVCq
Most frightening visuals with colonies flooded in the night; #Hyderabad & adjoining districts experienced heavy rain; vehicles getting washed away @ndtv @ndtvindia pic.twitter.com/5FqYUfp6hV
— Uma Sudhir (@umasudhir) October 18, 2020
The danger is not over yet for the residents of Telangana, as India Meteorological Department in its forecast for Sunday said that light to moderate rain or thundershowers were very likely to occur in some parts of the city.
All Officers,
— DGP TELANGANA POLICE (@TelanganaDGP) October 17, 2020
As @metcentrehyd issued #HeavyRains alert @ next 5 days.
Keep monitoring the situation at your areas, as its intensive spell, #flashfloods may trap people @ lowlying areas.
Brief your staff to act accordingly & see that no inconvenience is caused to #TheCitizens. pic.twitter.com/05opZ5yDCn
