Flood alert
Monsoon fury prompts flood alert in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana
Mumbai/IBNS: At least 130 villages in Maharashtra have been lashed by heavy rains leaving 128 of them without any communication.
Apart from Maharashtra, a red alert has also been issued in the southern states of Karnataka and Telangana.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), active monsoon conditions will prevail over Central India and along the West coast during the next five days.
Extremely heavy rainfall was reported at isolated places in Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Gujarat on Saturday, as per the weather department.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred over Uttarakhand, east Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Goa, Marathwada, central Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka, it said.
The weather department has predicted isolated heavy rainfall over Punjab and Haryana, and north Uttar Pradesh for Sunday.
Several parts of Maharashtra like Gadchiroli, Hingoli and Nanded districts in the Marathwada region have been affected by heavy rain, the state relief and rehabilitation department said in a bulletin on Saturday.
A red alert was sounded in Telangana after extremely heavy rain was recorded in Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Nizamabad and Rajanna Sircilla districts of the state.
Following a red alert, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has urged people to stay at home unless there is an emergency and take self-precautions.
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