Volunteers rescue people stranded in a residential area in Chennai. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)
A woman cries after seeing the corpse of her son floating in the Adyar River after he was washed away by floodwaters in Chennai (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)
Army personnel distribute food packets to flood affected people in Chennai on Friday. (PTI Photo)
A Coastguard chopper airlifts a sailor after he delivered food material to a residential area flooded due to heavy rainfall in Chenna. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)
Volunteers distribute water packets at a relief center in Chennai. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)
National Disaster Response Force personnel carry an elderly sick man from a residential area flooded due to the rainfall. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)
People sitting under an overbridge after they were rescued from a flooded locality in rain-hit Chennai on Friday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar
Army personnel carrying an elderly woman to safe place during their rescue operation in flood affected Chennai. PTI Photo
The ill-fated ICU of the MIOT Hospital in which several people lost their lives after the area was flooded after heavy rainfall. Several patients admitted to the hospital lost their lives due to floods. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar