The death toll in freak rains has risen to 22, even as fresh areas reeled under its impact on Sunday, this time in coastal Andhra, reports The Hindu. 

Most of the 12 deaths were reported from Prakasam, Nellore, Krishna and Chittoor districts either due to lightning or electrical short-circuit. Three persons were injured in house-collapses, two of them in Adilabad and one in Nizamabad.

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