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21 dead, many missing as Cyclone Tauktae batters COVID-hit India

At least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 others missing 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 on Tuesday.

India Hit by Cyclone amid Coronavirus Crisis

India Hit by Cyclone amid Coronavirus Crisis May 18, 2021 CNN reports that India has been hit, amid the coronavirus crisis in the country, by the strongest storm on record to reach its west coast. Tropical Cyclone Tauktae made landfall on Monday night in Gujarat. The state was hit with maximum sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour. According to the Indian Meteorological Department it had, by Tuesday morning, weakened from an “extremely severe cyclonic storm” to a “severe cyclonic storm.” At least 26 people across the coastal states of Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra were killed, from drowning at sea, collapsed houses, lightning strikes and other accidents as a result of Tauktae. Trees and power lines have been downed by ferocious winds, while highways were flooded by heavy rains.

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