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Five killed in South-East of the India by the action of Cyclone Thane
posted on: Dec 30 2011 10:12 by RDugey. Viewed 24 times.
Five people have died in the India by action of the Thane cyclone that made landfall this morning with heavy rains and winds of up to 140 kilometres per hour on the coasts of the southeast of the country, official sources reported today.
The dead are natives of the region of Tamil Nadu - where two people were killed electrocutadas and another by the fall of a tree - and the former French colony of Pondicherry, in which two people were killed by the collapse of two walls.
"Waves 1.5 metres hitting the coast, but the storm is characterized primarily by high winds and not so much by the rain," said the Indian agency IANS an officer of the Department of meteorology (IMD).
The authorities of the main city in the area, Chennai (formerly Madras), have ordered the temporary evacuation of homes in low-lying areas in anticipation of flooding, and have led to its inhabitants to camps which already comprises u000afood.
"We know nothing of what happens in the outside world." We only hear the whistling of the wind. "Many trees have fallen and the mobile signal is not adequate," told this agency a resident of the city of Pondicherry, S. Ravikumar.
The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted rain strong or very strong in several parts of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry until tonight, and ensures that there will be precipitation in the neighbouring regions of Kerala, Andhra and Karnataka.
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