Nine persons, including two women and three children, were killed in two incidents of wall collapses at Miyapur and Balanagar in the early hours of Saturday, while water logging was reported at several residential localities in Hyderabad.
Five persons – three from Madhya Pradesh and two from Hyderabad - died when the wall of a painting company near Narsapur crossroads in Balanagar collapsed around 2.30 a.m. on their huts, Balanagar Inspector Srinivas Reddy told The Hindu . Nearly 10 families had erected huts abutting the compound wall facing the main road and had been living in them.
“Due to heavy and night-long rain, the wall of the old building collapsed and fell on the huts,” the inspector said. Many of them were from Madhya Pradesh and had come to the city for to find a living by selling wool blanket. Three of them died. Two others, municipal worker, Laxmi, 45, and her son, Ramesh, living in another hut, too were killed in the incident.
The bodies were shifted to the Gandhi hospital for conducting post-mortem examination. In another incident, the wall of a house collapsed at Adityanagar in Hafeezpet of Miyapur around 4 a.m. killing four of a family who were asleep. The victims included a woman, her two daughters and a son. The Miyapur police have rushed to the spot and are clearing the debris.
The incessant rain resulted in water-logging in many residential and commercial localities in central parts of the city and the outskirts. Drains overflowed slowing down traffic movement on some trunk routes.
