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At Least Five Dead in Telangana’s Warangal Region as Cyclone Montha Triggers Flash Floods

Rescue teams press ongoing operations across flood-hit Jangaon, Warangal and Mahbubabad.

Overview

  • Authorities reported at least five fatalities across the erstwhile Warangal region from wall collapses, drowning and people being swept away during overnight downpours linked to Cyclone Montha.
  • Police said college student Bakka Sravya remains missing after floodwaters swept a motorcycle near Thimmampet in Station Ghanpur; rider Barigala Siva Kumar survived by clinging to a tree branch.
  • Passengers from TSRTC buses stranded by floodwaters were evacuated at Raghunathpalli on the Warangal–Hyderabad highway overnight and at Upparapalli in Wardhannapet on Thursday morning.
  • In separate incidents confirmed earlier in Warangal, Appani Nagendram died after falling into a flood-diversion channel and G. Suramma, 60, was killed when a wall collapsed at Kondaparthy village.
  • Further deaths were reported in Mahbubabad district from two wall collapses and a motorcycle washaway, with additional reports of livestock losses including dozens of sheep and poultry.