Heavy downpour batters Nellore district

Nellore: Spells of heavy rains pounded Nellore District yet again on Wednesday.

Special teams deployed to oversee the relief measures sent sandbags in order to bring the flood under control even as several lakes and tanks were in spate.

Several tanks and reservoirs in the district received heavy inflows of water. Somasila reservoir received nearly 35,000 cusecs of water. According to officials estimate the storage will reach 70 tmc in a few days.

Several low-lying villages submerged forcing the residents to relocate to safer locations.