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He said the government should have alerted the people about the impact of the extremely heavy rains that the State had experienced in over a century.

As a culvert swept away near Anna Sagar village of Mulug Mandal due to rains last night, the Collector has inspected the place to examine the situation.

According to the police, nearly a dozen vehicles were damaged after a portion of the road abutting the Katora Houz caved in during the heavy downpour.

As the area witnessed heavy rains and the Manjira has been receiving huge inflows overnight from upstream, the family members along with a two-year old girl have climbed on a shed to save their lives.

Hyderabad district collector Swetha Mohanty is supervising the local revenue, fire, police and GHMC teams in taking up rescue operations.

Heavy rain (6 cm to 12 cm) has recorded in six mandals in Warangal Urban district including Warangal, Hanamkonda and Hasanparthy mandals.

Siddipet district has received 110 mm average rainfall as Mulugu witnessed a record 210 mm rain during the past 24 hours at 8.30 am on Wednesday.

The Vice President sympathised with those affected by the excessive rains and urged all the people to follow the administration's directions to stay safe.

Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod districts have been issued yellow alert on Thursday.

During the last 24 hours, Serilingampally recorded the maximum rainfall of (63.5 mm) and across the State, Dubbak in Siddipet registered the maximum rainfall of (104.8 mm).

The Groundwater Department monitored these water levels during September with the help of 963 Piezometers (monitoring stations) covering 589 mandals from 33 districts.