Almost half of Velus village located near Valpoi town in Sattari, is inundated, while several other villages were cut off as roads and culverts are under water, eyewitnesses said.
The Indian Meteorological Department had sounded a red alert for Telangana on Thursday, warning of heavy to very heavy rains in several districts of the State.
The widespread rains are being attributed to an active southwest monsoon as well as a cyclonic circulation lying over northwest Bay of Bengal in the middle and upper tropospheric levels.
Till 6 p.m on Monday, Jurala project received 1.23 lakh cusecs, and authorities lifted 20 gates to release 1.51 lakh cusecs of water downstream to Srisailam
By evening several parts in the city and suburbs were lashed by heavy rain with Chandulal Baradari in Bahadurpura receiving the city’s highest rainfall of 50.30 mm
The highest rainfall of 145.3 mm was recorded in Kathalapur of Jagitial district followed by 110.5 mm in Rudrangi of Rajanna-Sircilla district, and 119.0 mm in Govindaram of Jagitial.
The incessant rainfall - that mostly hit the hilly and mountainous districts including Chitral, Dir, Mansehra and Swat - left four more people dead and injured 12 others in the last 24 hours.
Local train services from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus (CSMT) to neighbouring Thane and Vashi in Navi Mumbai were suspended due to water-logging on some railway tracks
