Heavy rains in Chennai claim 170 lives
Heavy rainfalls have caused extensive damage to standing crops, roads and other infrastructure facilities as well.
Chennai:
Rain
continues,
death
toll
reaches
150
More
than
150
people
were
killed
in
heavy
rains
in
the
coastal
regions
of
Tamil
Nadu
on
Sunday,
Dec
5.
The low pressure trough in the Bay of Bengal created heavy rains and flood like situation in Tamil Nadu. The weather department said that the rain will continue on Monday, Dec 6 as a fresh low pressure trough has formed in Bay of Bengal.
Government officials said that schools and educational institutions in Chennai, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Trichy and in some other affected areas will remain closed on Monday.
Fishermen have been warned not to venture into the sea as heavy rain expected in coming hours. The death toll is expected to increase. Most of the death were due to electrocution, wall collapses, lightning and drowning in flood waters.
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