Thoothukudi reels under severe floods

The surplus waters released from the village tanks in Kayathar and Ottapidaram taluks joined the rainwater flooding the villages since the wee hours of Monday. Adding to the woes of the people of Thoothukudi was the release of water from the Korampallam tank that further flooded the western parts of the Pearl city. Villages like the Rajiv nagar, Maravanmadam, Korampallam, Anthoniyarpuram are some of the severely affected villages, where the entry of the rescue team could not reach out to the people till Monday afternoon due to the heavy flow of floodwaters.

The floods did not even spare the Thoothukudi district police superintendent's office and the district collector's office. The ground floors of the district police office and collectorate complex near korampallam village here are completely inundated. It is feared that some of the documents in the collectorate could have been washed away by the floodwaters.

It is not just the village roads that have been damaged disrupting traffic, but the NH-7A, connecting Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli. was also severely damaged by the flood. Traffic between the two cities-Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi was hence suspended .