Hurricane Toll May Touch 1000: Naidu

However, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters here yesterday that the casualty figure may "run up to 1,000 dead".

Naidu said most villages in the highly-productive Konaseema region of East Godavari district were cut off from one another .

Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda will make an aerial survey of the affected areas this afternoon. Gowda has already ordered immediate release of Rs 50 crore for relief operations and Rs 2 crore from the PMs Relief Fund for payments to the kin of the dead.