12 Killed In Rain-related Incidents In South India

New Delhi, July 23, IRNA - Twelve people were killed and crops in about 60,000 hectares submerged due to heavy rainslashing Andhra Pradesh for about a week now. The government has announced compensation of about rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased as per applicable norms, officials said. They said 53 relief camps, providing shelter to 8,361 people, remained open. Standing cotton, soyabean, maize, paddy and pulses crops in as many as 59,878 hectares have been submerged and about 240 minor irrigation water tanks have suffered damage. Power supply has been restored to 480 villages out of 884 affected villages. So far 4,035 people have been shifted to 23 relief camps in the district. Around 17,100 food packets and 29,902 water and milk packets have been supplied people living in these camps, a district collector said, adding that 27 medical teams have been pressed into service to prevent outbreak of diseases in the flood-affected areas. A total of 1,41,505 people, spread over 39 villages of 18 mandals in the district, have been affected by the flood and 26 villages are surrounded by water./end