Hyderabad, Sep 15
Search operations continued on Monday for three persons washed away in two drains in Hyderabad following heavy rains on Sunday evening.
Personnel of Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and police were searching for two men washed away in Afzal Sagar nala in Habeeb Nagar in the heart of the city.
Arjun (26) and his relative Ramu (25) were washed away in the floodwater in the nala.
Similarly, rescue workers continued to search for a 24-year-old youth who fell into a nala in Vinobha Nagar in the Musheerabad area of Secunderabad.
The youth, identified as Dineshh, fell into the nala after the retaining wall on which he was sitting collapsed.
GHMC Commissioner R.V. Karnan visited Habeeb Nagar and inspected the nala. He reviewed the rescue operation with officials.
The families of the missing youth have appealed to the government to help them as they have lost their breadwinners.