Hyderabad, April 22: Vijayawada plunged into darkness and five persons lost their lives as thunderstorms, accompanied by strong winds, lashed different parts of the State on Wednesday night.
The nature’s fury was so severe that power supply in the temple town went completely haywire and the impact of the gales was such that trees were literally uprooted. In Vijayawada, three deaths were reported of whom one – T Prabhavathi – died when tin sheets that flew across hit her in Vidyadharapuram and two others died when walls collapsed.
Two were struck down by lightning in Krishna district. Guntur, Nellore, Prakasam, Warangal, Anantapur, Khammam and East and West Godavari districts also faced nature’s wrath but no loss of life was reported.
–Agencies