AP Rains: Death toll rises to 16 as four killed in house collapse

Vijayawada : Four persons, including two children, were killed when a house collapsed in Kadiri town in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, taking the rain-related death toll to 16 while 18 people were still missing in Kadapa district.

According to official sources, a building collapsed in old chairman street in Kadiri town in Anantapur district in the wee hours on Saturday in which four persons including two children were killed and 9 persons were rescued.

The first floor of the house was recently constructed on an old building. Due to heavy rains, it caved in killing four persons.

As many as 12 persons, including a bus conductor and two passengers, were washed away in the flood water at Nanduluru village in Rajampet division yesterday.

Meanwhile, most of the localities in Kadapa city, which witnessed a deluge on November 19, are in knee deep water. Several residential localities were inundated in Buggavanka flood water.

The officials said that the breaching to earth bund of Annamayya project and Cheyyuru reservoir led to the flash floods.

As many as 18 people who were offering prayers at a Shiva temple at Gundluru village washed away in flash floods. Three bodies had been fished out so far, officials said.

Ramapuram village bore the brunt of the flash floods. Collapsed houses, compound walls, uprooted electrical poles and trees were seen at the village.

A villager, Ramana Reddy, told the media that the flash flood gushed like a Tsunami and the villagers climbed rooftops to save themselves. Nine persons living in one house are missing in the villages.

Several livestock were washed away in the flood water, he said.

APSRTC Managing Director Dwaraka Tirumala Rao visited the Kadapa bus stand this morning.

He announced a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to the family of the bus conductor who was one among three persons killed when the bus got stuck in flood water at Nandalur.

He said that over 1,800 bus services were cancelled in the flood affected districts.

In Nellore district, the heavy flood to the river Penna continues resulting in hundreds of villages submerged in water.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy conducted an aerial survey in the flood affected Kadapa, Nellore and Anantapur districts.

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