Hyderabad: The heavens opened in Hyderabad on Sunday morning, deluging most of the main roads and low-lying localities in addition to depriving the city of electric supply.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department recorded 147 millimeter rainfall in 24 hours in Tandojam while the City, Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas received up to 58 mm of rain.
The urban towns of Tandojam were also partially or completely submerged, making movement of vehicles either difficult or impossible.
The Rescue 1122 shared photographs of pulling out vehicles stuck in water.
The railway underpass in Latifabad unit number 7 became immotorable with water level reaching 4 feet to 5 feet high.
Some of the stuck vehicles were pushed out of the water by men and others by tow trucks of the rescue. Even a passenger bus was stuck in the railway underpass near Giddu chowk.
The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) suspended electric supply to most of Hyderabad and by Sunday’s evening 66 feeders of 11 KV out of the total of 166 electric feeders of 11 KV in the district remained shut.
The HESCO’s spokesman Sadiq Kubar informed that the resumption would start once the field teams checked their respective areas for any fallen cables or transmission faults.