Monday, October 5, 2009

Rain fury claims 240 lives in three states

STAFF WRITER 15:29 HRS IST

Vijayawada/Bangalore, Oct 5 (PTI) The heaviest flood in over a 100 years in India's southern and western part, Monday hit the Prakasam Barrage on Krishna River threatening several villages downstream even as the toll due to heavy rains and rampaging floods in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra climbed to 240

River Krishna virtually turned into a sea in all its fury as a record 10.61 lakh cusecs of flood water reached Prakasam Barrage.

This is the heaviest flood in river Krishna in more than 106 years as the previous record stands at 10.30 lakh cusecs in 1903, irrigation authorities said in Vijayawada.

The water level touched 21.

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