5 killed as southern India braces for Cyclone Michaung

BHUBANESHWAR, India, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Heavy rains submerged roads and shut down a serious airport in southern India on Tuesday, the place a minimum of 5 folks, together with a toddler, had been killed within the flooding and the havoc hours earlier than a extreme cyclone was as a consequence of make landfall.

Cyclone Michaung is predicted to hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh state round 11 am native time (0530 GMT), the climate workplace stated, gusting in with winds of as much as 110 kph (70 mph).

Components of the state are anticipated to be pelted with greater than 200 mm (8 inches) of rain over the subsequent 24 hours, the climate workplace stated, and a minimum of 8,000 folks have been evacuated.

A 4-year-old boy died in Tirupati district after a wall fell, C Nagaraju, government director of the state’s catastrophe administration authority stated, whereas 4 folks had been killed in neighbouring Tamil Nadu state on Monday, officers stated.

In Tamil Nadu’s capital Chennai, a serious electronics and manufacturing hub, floodwaters swept away automobiles and submerged a runway, triggering the shutdown of certainly one of India’s busiest airports till Tuesday morning.

Images in native media confirmed grounded planes with submerged wheels. The rains and winds additionally snapped energy traces and uprooted timber, officers stated.

Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) and Pegatron (4938.TW) halted Apple (AAPL.O) iPhone manufacturing at their services close to Chennai as a consequence of heavy rains, sources acquainted with the matter advised Reuters on Monday.

In December 2015, floods in Tamil Nadu killed a minimum of 290 folks and triggered widespread harm.

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