Vinoba Nagar, who removed the debris from his two -wheel ox after flooding the area on Sunday after heavy rain in Hyderabad. | PHOTO CREDIT: NAGARA GOPAL
A narrow drain, barely three feet wide and usually not negligible, turned into a nightmare for Dasari Venkatesh and his neighbors into Nagar Colony in Pars Gutta, Secunderabad.
Around 20 o’clock, as well as families were preparing dinner, the flood water plunged into their cramped houses, with low roofs and sunk under the main road, and grew rapidly.
It was nothing new for the site. In any case, heavy rain has become deep water in the waist. There remains a retaining wall, part of which now lay like a pile of heavy boulders, hardly protected by their homes because the water came out of the handles and flowed like a stream from the upper areas.
“But this time it was really scary. The water raised very quickly,” says Venkatesh, pointing to the humidity on the brick wall of the house on the opposite side, which indicated the level at which the water reached. On Sunday evening, Secunderabad and Musherabad received the highest precipitation of 12 centimeters.
The retaining wall allegedly collapsed when Venkatesh’s friend Dinesh Aka Sunny tried to prevent his motor wheel from flowing into the runoff. “During his attempts to stop the bike he hit several times against the already weakened wall, which led to his collapse. Dinesh was immediately pulled,” Srinivas, another resident. His body could not be found until the news had last reached.
Another nightmare was at the Vendkoesho family and his neighbors who lived in one -storey houses along the drain. The video clips circulating on social media showed that the water almost reaches the top of the door, and Venkatesho desperately hangs on the door frame so that it does not fall. The cries of fear rent air and send tremor along the spine of the spectators.
“My niece hung on it,” says Venkatesh, as shown in the wooden beam protruding from the roof. “I climbed across the nearby tree, got to the roof and pulled it up.”
His neighbor Mohammed Ayub Baig also drowned almost in dangerous water, but fortunately he and his family escaped. “If the water even rose up a leg higher, we would all be a history,” he says.
Without the rescue efforts of the authorities and homes, families who spent the night on the main road Parsi Gutta were starved and exposed to rain. On Monday on Monday failed to relieve.
According to the locals, the retaining wall was built 10 years ago, but was weakened due to pollutants. Respect for the water body is visibly absent, with housing complexes and schools rise almost on the edge on both sides.
“We tried to keep housing loans to increase the height of our homes to escape the inundation, but no bank was ready. The government should ensure that we get loans or show us alternative accommodation,” Baig says.
Published – 16 September 2025 12:53
