Updated On: 04 December, 2015 10:54 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Home Minister Rajnath Singh describes situation as alarming; informs Lok Sabha that another 54 people succumbed to the downpour in Andhra Pradesh as well</p>

New Delhi: The heaviest rains in Tamil Nadu in over a century, and floods, have left 269 people dead, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said yesterday, describing the situation as ‘alarming’.

Army personnel rescue a youth in flood-hit Chennai after heavy rainfall yesterday. Singh said 30 teams of the NDRF and seven columns of the Army were engaged in relief and rescue work. Pic/PTI