HYDERABAD: Unprecedented floods in the Krishna river basin in Andhra Pradesh on Friday heaped misery on lakhs of people in Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts forcing the government to seek the help of the Army and the Navy.
The entire State administration from the Secretariat downwards remained on tenterhooks as further danger was ahead. The Central Water Commission forecast that the inflows to Srisailam would go up to an enormous level of 20 lakh cusecs, the highest in history by Saturday morning, posing a threat to villages on the banks of Krishna not only in Kurnool and Mahabubnagar, but also in Nalgonda, Guntur and Krishna districts.
Kurnool, a city with a population of nearly five lakh, bore the brunt of the flood fury as water reached the first storey of several buildings. There were heart-rending scenes of people frantically seeking assistance to rescue them, but the government did not have sufficient number of boats or men to help them. It is estimated that about 40,000 people had taken shelter on the rooftops.
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