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4 killed as Kanniyakumari faces cyclone fury
Cyclone Ockhi, which is on its way to Lakshadeep islands, turned entire Kanniyakumari district upside-down, claiming four lives, uprooting thousands of trees besides causing mass destruction of properties.
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Four persons, including a woman, were killed at different places after trees fell on them on Thursday.
Several parts of southern Tamil Nadu were battered by torrential rains triggered by the Cyclone Ockhi, which lay centred about 70 km off Kanniyakumari coast. Schools and colleges were shut down on Thursday and a holiday has been declared for institutions in Kanniyakumari and Tirunelveli on Friday.
The depression that was located 80 km east-southeast of Hambantota in Sri Lanka and 500 km east - southeast of Kanniyakumari on Wednesday elevated into a cyclone, ‘Ockhi’, on Thursday and was heading east towards Maldives.
The movement of the cyclone closer to Kanniyakumari caused gales and uprooted thousands of trees bringing the traffic to a standstill in the entire district. In some areas, trees fell on vehicles damaging buses, lorries, cars.
The high velocity winds also targeted buildings, electric poles and cellphone towers. Over 500 electric poles were also uprooted resulting in power disruption in many parts. Mobile phone service was badly hit as 319 phone towers were brought down.
Crops too were inundated and over one lakh plants being uprooted. Rubber plantations also could not escape the fury of the cyclone.
KUMARI ON EDGE AFTER OCKHI BLOW
Traffic came to a standstill because of uprooted trees
- 963mm rainfall recorded
- 65-75 km/hour windspeed
- 319 mobile phone towers damaged
- District administration asked people not to venture out of their houses
- Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said one team comprising 70 personnel and two teams of 60 personnel of State and National Disaster Response Force respectively have been rushed to
- Kanniyakumari district
Intermittent rain in Chennai for 2 days
CHENNAI: Weather experts at RMC said that Chennai will experience intermittent rain with the sky remaining overcast forv two more days. “As of now, there is no possibility of heavy and continuous rains in Chennai. However, few parts of the city and suburbs will experience mild showers during the night,” Dr S Balachandran, director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre, RMC, said.
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