NDRF rescues family stuck in flood waters
HYDERABAD:A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescued five members of a family stuck in the flood waters of Musi river at Gandipet late on Tuesday night.
The family, including three women and a child were stuck in a farm house in the river bed on the city outskirts.
Ater a five-hour-long operation, the NDRF team with the help of police rescued the family from the flood waters at Gandipet, as the Osman Sagar reservoir across Musi is popularly known.
The family, working at a farm house, had alerted the police ater being caught in the flood waters. Police, officials of the revenue department, Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) rushed there.
With the rising flood level, authorities sought the help of NDRF.
Yogi Kumar Verma, who was leading the NDRF team, told reporters that five persons were rescued with the help of an inflatable river boat.
“We have evacuated all the five, including a child. They are all safe,” he said Sunil said he searched the telephone number of authorities over Google and sought the help as the water level had suddenly started rising.
Following heavy rain in upstream Vikarabad and Chevella areas, the Musi river has been receiving huge inflows.
Authorities have opened the gates of twin reservoirs Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar to let out the water downstream.
Two bridges across Musi river in Hyderabad were closed for traffic on Wednesday as flood water was overflowing them.
With the Musi in spate due to heavy inflows from upstream and discharge of flood water from twin reservoirs on the outskirts, traffic police closed Moosarambagh causeway and Chaderghat old bridge.
Traffic police erected barricades on both sides of the bridges, leading to huge traffic jam in Chaderghat, Malakpet, Moosarambagh and adjoining areas.
The traffic between Amberpet and Malakpet came to a halt while the movement of vehicles between Chaderghat and Malakpet was badly affected. The usually busy bridges were completely flooded with river flowing over them.
Residential areas close to river banks were also inundated. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) shited the affected people to relief camps.