Cyclone floods parts of India's east coast, knocks out power

HYDERABAD, India — A cyclone flooded parts of India’s eastbound seashore with dense rains and uprooted thousands of trees and powerfulness poles, knocking retired electricity, earlier weakening to a heavy slump Monday.

Heavy rains lashed the municipality of Kalingapatnam successful Andhra Pradesh authorities connected Sunday, swamping roads and marooning hundreds of villages, section authoritative Shrikesh Lathkar said.

One fisherman was missing and different was injured erstwhile their vessel was deed by the precocious tide, but nary deaths person been reported from the storm.

Authorities successful 2 coastal states had been connected precocious alert arsenic the cyclone with sustained winds blowing up to 85 kilometers per hr (53 mph) deed the eastbound seaboard precocious Sunday evening. National Disaster Response Force teams were deployed to the eastbound authorities of Odisha and the confederate authorities of Andhra Pradesh, wherever thousands of radical were evacuated.

The meteorological section said the tempest was apt to weaken further and proceed moving westward.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said helium had spoken to main ministers successful some states, assuring them of support. “I commune for everyone’s information and well-being,” helium tweeted.

In May, a monolithic storm lashed India’s occidental coast, sidesplitting astatine slightest 140 people. Just implicit a week later, another cyclone slammed the country’s eastbound seashore and neighboring Bangladesh, leaving astatine slightest six dormant arsenic authorities scrambled to evacuate implicit a cardinal people.

India’s eastbound seashore is nary alien to devastating cyclones, but changing clime patterns person caused them to go much intense.