Two dead as incessant rain sinks Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The torrential rains in Hyderabad that continued through Wednesday claimed the lives of a 23-year-old fitness trainer from Madhapur and 43-year-old priest from Pochampally.
Fitness trainer Adam Mark Jordan was electrocuted while returning to his hostel from the gym at 11.30pm on September 24. “The incessant rains led to water logging around his hostel,” said the sub-inspector at Madhapur police station.“When he reached the hostel gate on his cycle, Jordan put his foot down and touched an iron rod and got electrocuted. We suspect that an electric wire had snapped when the builder of an under-construction structure in the vicinity had recently trimmed the tree branches.” Jordan’s body was sent to the Osmania General Hospital for post-mortem.

In another incident, 43-year-old priest, B Premkumar Shastry, died after slipping into a nala in Chaitanyapuri. He had gone there for work along with his friend Ramakrishna Sharma. They had parked the vehicle at Peddamberpet. “Around 11.40pm, while going back to Peddamberpet from Chaitanyapuri, the two accidentally slipped into a nala. While Ramakrishna managed to escape unscathed, Shastry could not,” said Ashok Reddy, inspector at LB Nagar police station. Police suspect that the two were in an inebriated state. The body was recovered around 3am, 100 metres away the accident site.
Many areas in the eastern and western corridors of the city witnessed waterlogging, inundation and power-outages within a span of eight hours on Tuesday night. As an overcast covered a large part of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, mayhem unfolded with rainwater entering many houses in areas such as Tirmulgherry, Uppal, Malkajgiri.
In 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday, the GHMC received total 93 complaints related to civic issues ranging from water stagnation, uprooted trees, etc. “We rescued nearly three people who were stuck in the rain. One man was rescued from a manhole in Nagole. There were 82 complaints on water logging and eight related to uprooted trees and fallen branches,” said an official. Residents of Malani Enclave in Tirmulgherry had to come together to clear out the water which inundated the entire lane. Similar conditions were observed at East Anandbagh in Malkajgiri where six lanes were waterlogged.