HYDERABAD, Sept 23: The rains have hit around some 6,77,992 people of 960 villages of the district, besides washing away standing Kharif crops on 72,692 acres.

The DCO Hyderabad Ahmed Bux Narejo said this during a briefing of 30-member team of senior civil officers of 95th National Management Course on Thursday. This district suffered minimum losses as compared to others with urban losses inflicted mainly due to obsolete drainage system, he said. However, rural taluka had been declared a calamity-hit area because it faced the major brunt.

There had been reportedly 14 rain-related casualties with 559 houses destructed totally and 8,182 partially. Hence, the district government established 76 relief camps among which 13 had been made functional with the accommodation of 5,000 people, he said.—Bureau