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| 194 Dead In K’tka, Andhra | | Rains, floods render two million homeless | |
Bangalore/Hyderabad: Heavy rains and surging flood water continued to batter Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh claiming 194 lives and indundating vast swathes of land rendering nearly two million people homeless as authorities battled to reach food and shelter for them.
Resuce efforts were stepped up with troops backed by IAF helicopters shifting marooned people in both the states to safer areas.
While 161 people perished in the heavy rains that lashed 15 districts of Karnataka, 33 people were killed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh whose five districts were hit by the flash flood affecting more than 18 lakh people.
The death count in both the states is likely to mount as many people in flood-hit areas have gone missing in Andhra Pradesh and between 11 and 21 persons were feared buried under mounds following landslide in a hillock at Kadawada village in Uttara Kannada where two bodies have been recovered, officials said.
More than 60 villages in the Krishna Lanka (island) that abut the river Krishna on either side in Krishna and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh faced the danger of getting inundated as the flood level crossed the six lakh cusecs mark this evening.
Torrential rains continued to ravage North Karnataka today, bringing vast areas under water and over a lakh houses and flattening over a lakh houses.
Official sources said that in worst-hit Bijapur district, the number of deaths has risen to 30. Neighbouring Bagalkote accounted for 20 deaths since September 28, followed by Raichur (19), Gulbarga (18), Koppal (17), Bellary (12), Davangere (nine), Chitradurga (eight), Gadag (seven), Belgaum (six), Uttara Kannada (five), Bidar (four) and Dharwad (one).
Fifteen districts have been impacted in varying degrees by the monsoon fury, he said, adding, the unprecedented rain in northern Karnataka has damaged 1,03,291 houses.
Rescue operations were on in full swing in Kadawada village in Uttara Kannada district where a major landslide buried eight houses. According to eyewitnesses, around 11-21 people were feared trapped.
Rains had abated to some extent except in coastal parts and Bellary district, he said.
The Indian Air Force evacuated 12 persons caught in neck-deep water in Bellary district while 32 marooned people were rescued from the temple town of Mantralaya in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district bordering Raichur in Karnataka.
Rail and rail transport were affected in the rain-hit districts of both the states.
The Indian Army has deployed around 700 troops along with eight medical teams and an engineer task force to carry out relief and rescue operations in the flood-affected districts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
"We have deployed eight columns along with medical teams and adequate rescue equipment and materials in Kurnool and Mehboobnagar districts in Andhra Pradesh and at Bijapur in Karnataka since yesterday to help the civil administration in relief and rescue operations," Army officials said.
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