Musi began overflowing into adjacent colonies and inundated portions of the ORR service roads, prompting the HMWS&SB to issue a flood warning.

xHyderabad: The Musi began overflowing into adjacent colonies and inundated portions of the ORR service roads, prompting the HMWS&SB to issue a flood warning. The city’s twin drinking water reservoirs were releasing about 30,000 cusecs of water, 18,000 from Himayatsagar and 11,557 cusecs from Osmansagar.

Authorities began evacuating people from low-lying areas along the river, amid expectations that more water would need to be released in view of the massive inflows. As the water releases increased during the course of the day, the GHMC evacuated 55 residents from flood-prone areas under Shivaji Bridge and near Bhulakshmi temple. They have been a

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