Cyclone Tauktae leaves 24 dead, dozens missing in Covid-stricken India
Country s coronavirus tally passes 25 million SAMAA | AFP - Posted: May 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 days ago SAMAA | AFP Posted: May 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 days ago
Police and rescue personnel evacuate a local resident through a flooded street in a coastal area after heavy rains under the influence of cyclone Tauktae in Kochi on May 14, 2021. Photo: AFP
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At least 24 people were dead and almost 100 missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed into western India, compounding the country s woes as it battles a devastating coronavirus surge.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after Cyclone Tauktae hammered the Gujarat coast on Monday evening.
Cyclone Tauktae batters Covid-stricken India’s west coast
600 Covid-19 patients moved to safer locations SAMAA | AFP - Posted: May 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago SAMAA | AFP Posted: May 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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A monster cyclone was lashing India Tuesday, with powerful winds and driving rain leaving at least 20 people dead, and interrupting the vaccine programme the country urgently needs to get its spiralling Covid-19 outbreak under control.
Cyclone Tauktae battered swathes of the vast nation, sending huge waves crashing onto its shores, turning streets into rivers, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.
Standing tall and strong even with all the pounding of these gigantic waves
âA monster cyclone has lashed India, with powerful winds and driving rain leaving at least 20 people dead, and interrupting the vaccine programme the country urgently needs to get its spiralling Covid-19 outbreak under control.
Cyclone Tauktae battered swathes of the vast nation, sending huge waves crashing onto its shores, turning streets into rivers and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.
The colossal swirling system - the biggest to hit the region in decades - claimed lives in Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat as savage winds swept through flimsy homes and uprooted trees and electricity pylons.
Mumbai authorities closed the airport and urged people to stay indoors, shifting about 600 Covid-19 patients in field hospitals to safer locations , while sea levels swelled as high as three metres (10 feet) near the seaside town of Diu.
India s Gujarat evacuates over 200,000 people as Cyclone Tauktae hits
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Tuesday May 18, 2021
People move a fishing boat to a safer place along the shore ahead of Cyclone Tauktae in Veraval in the western state of Gujarat, India, May 17, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Cyclone Tauktae makes landfall in Gujarat late Monday evening
Rain intensified and several power outages were reported in the Gujarat state, while electricity pylons and trees were uprooted and buildings damaged in coastal areas
Concern for welfare of rare Asiatic lions in Gujarat, two barges with over 400 people adrift near Mumbai
AHMEDABAD: More than 200,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat and authorities shut ports and major airports as the most powerful cyclone in more than two decades made landfall in the state late on Monday.
At least 21 people were dead and 96 were missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed into western India, compounding the misery for millions of others who are enduring a devastating coronavirus surge.
Hundreds of thousands of people were without power after Cyclone Tauktae, one of a growing number of increasingly severe storms in the Arabian Sea blamed on climate change, hammered the Gujarat coast on Monday evening.
The cyclone packed gusts of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) per hour, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines and mobile phone towers as it barrelled inland while weakening slightly.
One support vessel serving oil rigs that were hit by immense waves off the coast of Mumbai sank and 96 of the 273 people who had been on board were missing, the Indian Navy said Tuesday.