At least 15 die as flooding ravages southern Indian state

The first house to collapse in Hyderabad was in a hilly area of the city where the soil was loosened by more than 9.8 inches of rain in the past 24 hours

Residents look at a street inundated with floodwater after heavy rainfall in Hyderabad, India (Mahesh Kumar A/AP)

Record rains and heavy flooding in the southern Indian state of Telangana collapsed houses and killed at least 15 people, police said.

Four other people were injured in Hyderabad, the state’s capital, when a house’s boundary wall fell on a neighbouring house, which collapsed with the impact, police officer Gaja Bhopal Rao said.