Hyderabad flood toll hits 30
At least 30 people have been killed because of sudden torrential rains and flooding in southern India, officials said yesterday.
In Hyderabad city, home to top IT companies, nine people were killed when a wall collapsed on them and 10 others died from electrocution and drowning, a local official told AFP.
Dramatic images showed cars being washed away by swirling waters, bridges submerged by swollen rivers and trucks stranded on roads inundated by flooding Wednesday.
Personnel from the army and the National Disaster Response Force have been deployed to evacuate stranded residents.
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