Cyclone Ockhi leaves 9 dead in Tamil Nadu, Kerala; search on for missing, NDRF teams moved


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Chennai: At slightest 9 people have mislaid their lives and some-more than 80 fishermen and 50 boats have left blank after Cyclonic charge ‘Ockhi‘ lashed a coastal areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala with torrential rainfall and blowing winds.


It has changed westwards and strong into a low depression.


Kerala Fisheries Minister J Mercykutty, however, pronounced a Indian Navy and Coast Guard have discovered 33 fishermen and have located another 70 following a bad continue conditions that strike Kerala and Tamil Nadu coasts a day ago.  


The Chennai gourmet has announced a holiday for schools opposite a city in perspective of a complicated rainfall warning from a MeT department.


Besides Chennai, a authorities have sealed schools Kanyakumari, Tuticorin, Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Madurai, Theni, Thanjavur and Thiruvarur for a day.  


The authorities in these state have taken several precautionary measures that embody shutting down of propagandize and colleges and arising an advisory to people seeking them to stay inside their houses.


While a high warning has already been sounded and a NDRF service and rescue teams have been asked to be prepared to accommodate any eventuality, a fishermen have been suggested not to try into a high sea.


Meanwhile, hunt operations for a several blank fishermen, who had put out to sea from a seashore here, resumed this morning with Navy deploying a Dornier and an Advanced light helicopter (ALH) with divers.


The governments in Kerala and Tamil Nadu had also sought assistance from a Navy, a Coast Guard and a Air Force for aiding those in distress.


Navy, that had yesterday sent a Seaking helicopter for a hunt operations, this morning deployed a Dornier and an ALH with divers, Southern Naval Command orator Commander Sreedhar Warrier was quoted as observant by PTI.


Five ships had been sent to a southern Kerala seashore yesterday by a Navy after reports emerged that several fishermen who had put out to sea in choppy waters were nonetheless to return.


Two ships with service materials are on standby for charitable assistance to Lakshadweep.


Police pronounced they have no accurate information on a sum series of fishermen blank as some have landed during several coasts, including during Colachel in TN.


At slightest 4 fishermen who managed to strech a shores early currently pronounced they saw several overturned boats.


Two AN32 Aircraft have located people stranded in a sea and Coast Guard and Navy have been sensitive about a plcae of a fishermen and floating boats, a PIB press recover said.


Though dual Air Force choppers are prepared for rescue operations, though due to a severe continue over a Arabian sea, they have not been means to airborne, a recover added.


The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has also expelled a list of do’s and dont’s for people in a most-affected areas and asked them not to panic in during such situations. The group also asked people to listen to radio, watch radio for continue updates and have an puncture pack ready. 



According to a Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), a Cyclone Ockhi is now streamer for Lakshadweep and is doubtful to make landfall in India.


The latest observations, radar and satellite imageries expelled by IMD this morning prove that a cyclonic charge over Southeast Arabian sea has changed west-northwestwards with a speed of 25 kmph during a past 6 hours and lay centred during 0230 currently over a Southeast Arabian sea, about 230 km west of Thiruvananthapuram and 160 km easterly of Minicoy.


Several trees were uprooted and energy lines were snapped and settlements tighten to a sea were exceedingly shop-worn due to a Cyclonic charge Ockhi in Kanyakumari and Thoothukudi districts of Tamil Nadu.


According to ANI, a charge claimed a lives of during slightest 4 people in Kerala alone.


(In Pics: Cyclone Ockhi creates havoc)


On Thursday, a male in an autorickshaw died in Kollam after a tree fell on a three-wheeler, dual others were electrocuted in Trivandrum and a lady died after a tree fell on her residence in Vizhinjam due to a cyclone.


The IMD had progressing expelled a ”heavy to really complicated rainfall” warning in both a states.


The basin in Southwest Bay of Bengal had snowballed into a cyclonic charge ‘Ockhi’, it said.


The lethal charge has killed during slightest 7 people in beside Sri Lanka and influenced a lives of scarcely 20,000 people, a reports said.


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