Heavy rain created a sort of havoc in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad causing traffic jams and inundation of low lying areas. Reportedly nine persons, including two women and three children, were killed in two incidents of wall collapses at Miyapur and Balanagar in the early hours of Saturday.

Of the nine killed, five are from Madhya Pradesh and two from Hyderabad. They died when the wall of a painting company near Narsapur crossroads in Balanagar collapsed around 2.30 a.m. on their huts. Nearly 10 families had erected huts abutting the compound wall facing the main road and had been living in them. Many of them were from Madhya Pradesh and had come to the city to find a living by selling wool blankets. Three of them died. Two others, municipal worker, Laxmi, 45, and her son, Ramesh, living in another hut, too were killed in the incident. The bodies were shifted to the Gandhi hospital for conducting post-mortem examination.

In another incident, the wall of a house collapsed at Adityanagar in Hafeezpet of Miyapur around 4 a.m. killing four of a family who were asleep. The victims included a woman, her two daughters and a son. The Miyapur police have rushed to the spot and are clearing the debris. The incessant rain resulted in water-logging in many residential and commercial localities in central parts of the city and the outskirts. Drains overflowed slowing down traffic movement on some trunk routes.