AMARAVATI: In Andhra Pradesh, hundreds of vehicles and passengers were stranded, traffic was either closed or suspended in arterial highways and over 100 trains canceled snapping rail-road link between southern and other parts of the country as the Penna river in spate caused heavy destruction on Sunday.
Toll in rain-related incidents in different districts of Andhra Pradesh touched 31 as more bodies were retrieved from the flooded streams.
The Chennai-Kolkata National Highway-16 remained cut off or traffic between Nellore and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh as was the Chennai grand trunk rail route severing the all-important link between the southern and eastern and northern parts of the country.
The South Central Railway informed that more than 100 express trains were canceled because of the damage caused to the rail track at Padugupadu near Nellore and 29 more diverted via other routes.
This story is from the November 22, 2021 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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