Guwahati News Desk: Several trains cancelled and hundreds of vehicles stranded, as main road and rail routes in Andhra Pradesh remained cut off due to the ongoing floods on Sunday.
As per the reports, a total of 42 trains on the Chennai-Vijayawada grand trunk route, were cancelled by the Railway authorities.
According to the South Central Railway (SCR), the trains were cancelled due to heavy inflow of water between Nellore-Padugupadu section of Vijayawada Division and Razampet-Nandalur of Guntakal Division.
According to officials, nearly 24 lakh people were affected by the floods. A total of 1,316 villages were hit by the heavy rains. The rains and floods damaged 1,549 houses.
The authorities evacuated nearly 21,000 people and set up 243 relief camps.
Moreover, the heavy rains and floods have so far claimed 24 lives in the four districts while 17 people went missing.
Furthermore, the natural calamity has damaged agriculture and horticulture crops over 6.33 lakh acres.