Question

Describe the devastation caused by floods in Kurnool

Answer 1

water engulfed Kurnool city and 100 other villages in this flood. Some of them got virtually wiped off the map. Hundreds of people, who were initially reluctant to leave their houses, were forced to shift to the roof tops. Soon the surging water engulfed residential localities trapping people in their houses.

According to an estimate, 20 lakh people in Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts were affected by the unprecedented flood. 

At Gundrevula village under C. Belagal mandal, 400 people were trapped on the terrace of a few buildings and were crying for help