At least 15 people were dead and 18 missing after flash floods hit South India, making 20,000 people shift to relief camps, reports revealed on Sunday.
Media outlets reported that over 20,000 people have been evacuated and shifted to relief camps after the heavy rains wreaked havoc in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor, Kadapa, Nellore, and Anantapur.
More than a hundred villages, most of them in Kadapa, are presently inundated. The official death toll has risen to 15 even as 18 others are still missing, according to the government figures.
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On his part, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy conducted an aerial survey of affected areas and reviewed the flood situation with the district collectors on Saturday.
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the CM over the phone and assured him of all help.
Heavy rainfall left several rivers, canals, and water bodies in Chittoor and Nellore districts overflowing.
Over 32,000 hectare of agriculture and horticulture lands are damaged. More rains, moderate to heavy, are predicted to occur at isolated places over south coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema regions Saturday.
Meantime, seven teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), four of them deployed in Kadapa and nine teams of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been pressed into rescue and relief operations.
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