Unseasonal torrential rains accompanied with gusty winds battered Hyderabad on Tuesday night and early hours of Wednesday, bringing normal life to a standstill
An eight-year-old girl has died in a wall collapse incident at Jubilee Hills during Tuesday’s heavy downpour that lasted through the night and morning, causing disruptions across the city
The most affected areas were in the west and north of the city, where residents reported unscheduled power outages, incidents of trees getting uprooted and inundation
According to the police, the eight-year-old girl Jevanika was asleep in her house when stones from the railings of an adjacent building fell on the family’s asbestos roofed house
The asbestos sheets broke, and the stones fell on the child resulting in her death. The police reached the spot and shifted the body to Gandhi Hospital mortuary
The social media was flooded with complaints from residents urging the electricity board officials to restore power
Tree falls and minor flooding at certain stretches disrupted traffic flow
Several areas such as Ameerpet, SR Nagar, Karkhana, Sainikpuri and Nanakramguda were waterlogged in the early hours of Wednesday owing to clogged drains