Odisha’s Malkangiri faces flood-like situation, over 1.8K people shifted

BHUBANESWAR/MAKANGIRI: Torrential rains triggered by the deep depression left Malkangiri district grappling with a flood-like situation as large parts of the district remained cut off from both Odisha and Andhra Pradesh ends on Monday.

Over 1,800 people had to be shifted to safer places as storm water submerged roads and bridges, inundating may areas in two blocks of the district which received an average of 185 mm rainfall with Malkangiri block recording 253 mm.

The intensity of rain dropped by Monday evening but by then Malkangiri had faced the wrath of two days rainfall leading to submergence of low-lying bridges at Pangam, MV-7, Potteru, MV-90, Kangrukonda on NH-326. A bridge near Kalimela Government SSD Girls High school was overtopped by storm water snapping communication between Kalimela, Podia and Chhattisgarh. Link between Balimela and Andhra Pradesh through Chitrakonda remained cut off as the old Piligada bridge on Odisha side was washed away. In two schools, inmates of hostels were shifted to the panchayat offices as water entered the premises.