The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team has rescued 70 people stranded in the Moranchapally village which was submerged in the swirling waters overflowing from an adjoining tank.
Of these, five were airlifted by the defence helicopters while others were evacuated using boats, Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari said. She asked the lorry drivers and other workers stranded on the Jayashankar Bhupalpally National Highway to shift to safer places and advised them not to take any risks. The State Government, in the meantime, was making arrangements for dropping food packets for the people stranded in the flood-affected areas through helicopters.
