Heavy rain batters Hyderabad

4-year-old dies after falling into storm drain; six other deaths reported in state

A sheavy rains battered Hyderabad for the second day, a four-year-old boy was washed away when he slipped into a storm water drain, just outside his residence in Bachupally area of Hyderabad.

CCTV footage showed the boy falling through a gap in the pavement in the storm water drain at NRI colony in Pragathinagar area and locals who noticed him tried to save him but he was washed away by the swirling waters.

The incident occurred around 11 am. Personnel of fire department and Disaster Response Force of GHMC were searching for him.

Although the body was sighted near a lake, it was washed away before they could retrieve it.

While schools and colleges were shut after today after the state government declared a holiday for educational institutions following an alert from the meteorological department, office commuters had a harrowing time reaching their destinations because traffic moved at a snail's pace after several roads were inundated by water from the nearby lakes.

In many areas traffic cops manning the roads were seen removing waste from manholes to drain the water.