Cyclone Asna Causes Heavy Rainfall in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: 9 Dead and Floods in Houses.

Due to incessant rainfall, South Central Railway has cancelled over 20 trains and diverted over 30 in both the states due to heavy floods. In Andhra Pradesh, Ambapuram, Nainavaram, Nunna, and Pathapadu villages in Vijayawada Rural Mandal have been completely submerged. Police and NDRF teams have initiated rescue and relief operations, relocating affected residents to rehabilitation centers.

The depression over north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts been causing heavy rainfall in these two states over the past two days. It has moved northwestwards to cross the southern state’s coast near Kalingapatnam in the early hours of Sunday, a India Meteorological Department official told news agency PTI. “Depression over South Odisha and adjoining South Chhattisgarh and north Andhra Pradesh abt 60 km southeast of Jagdalpur, 70 km northeast of Malkangiri.

Likely to move across South Odisha, South Chhattisgarh and Vidarbha and weaken into Well Marked Low Pressure Area during next 24 hours,” the weather office said in a post. Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha said 13,227 people were evacuated from 294 villages in five districts, reported news agency PTI. “Until now nine people died due to the heavy rains.

Police, NDRF and SDRF teams rescued 600 people from the marooned places. As many as 17 NDRF and SDRF teams undertook rescue operations at 22 submerged places in seven districts,” Mr Anitha said in an official release. In Andhra Pradesh’s NTR district, passengers were stranded at the station since Saturday night after officials halted the Tamil Nadu Express due to heavy floods in Rayanapadu village.

Following the heavy rains, rivulets were in spate in some districts and the floodwaters disrupted road links between villages. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy held an emergency review with ministers, officials and elected members to review the situation, reported news agency PTI. He directed the ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs to stay in their respective areas and take up relief operations.

In Telangana’s Mahabubabad, a young scientist was found dead after being washed away in floodwaters. Dr Nunavath Ashwini was associated with the ICAR – National Institute of Biotic Stress Management’s School of Crop Resistance System Research of Raipur. Search and rescue operations are underway to find her missing father.

An RTC bus and a car were submerged in flood on road in Mahbubabad and with the help of JCB crane, the cops rescued the people trapped in the bus. Movement of traffic came to a halt on Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway as flood water submerged the highway near Suryapet in Telangana. Heavy rains have been lashing Nalgonda and Suryapet districts since Saturday, inundating low-lying areas and cutting off road links to some villages.

Parts of Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram, Parvatipuram Manyam, Alluri Sitarama Raju, Kakinada and Nandyala districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall, said an official release. For the following four days, isolated places in North Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam are expected to experience thunderstorms with lightning. The met office has issued a red alert for 11 districts in Telangana.

Extremely heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places in these districts over the next 24 hours, the met office said on Sunday.