During the incessant territorial rains in the past 24 hours, four people lost their lives in Bhopal. One each death has been reported from Chuna Bhatti, Rajiv Nagar, Nehru Nagar and Ko-e-Fiza. In Rajiv Nagar Deepak Sahu lost his life while he was trying to save a woman and a child. In Nehru Nagar Anas Atal got washed away in the flood. Two more people have lost their lives, but they remain unidentified yet. The schools have been closed and the exams of the RGPV have been postponed.
Due to the heavy rain, houses in the lower areas got flooded and people are busy getting the water out. In the areas Aishbagh, Barkhedi, Semra, Hinotiya, Chhola and Kolar, houses got flooded due to the Friday night rainfall.
The situation was inspected by senior officials of the BMC and alerted the employees. In many areas flood forced the people to leave their houses. The arrangements made by the BMC failed to prove its worth in the hour of need. Met department issued warning of heavy rainfall in all the districts of the State including Bhopal.
Meanwhile, State Congress president ArunYadav inspected various flood affected places in the city like Pushpa Nagar and Semra. He spoke with the affected people and requested the police administration to provide them help at the earliest.
During the visit the AICC Secretary Sajjan Singh Verma, State Congress General Secretary PC Sharma, Manoj Rajani, Deepti Singh, Durgesh Sharma, Secretary Jitendra Singh Bagel and Tokir Nizami were present.