Maharashtra witnessed heavy rains and floods under the impact of Cyclone Gulab on Tuesday. The state disaster management control said that a total of 13 persons and 206 livestock lost their lives in the rains and the subsequent floods. Eight districts including six of Marathwada were affected by the cyclone. Two NDRF teams have been deployed in Latur and Osmanabad while one SDRF team has been deployed in Jalgaon.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that extremely heavy rains are expected at a few places in Marathwada as well as Mumbai and other parts of the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra in the next 24 hours. The forecast came even as Mumbai received heavy showers during the day. Meanwhile, four persons are missing after a Maharashtra state transport bus was swept away by strong currents from an overflowing nullah about 3 km from Umarkhed town in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district. Two of the six occupants in the bus have been rescued. In a viral video, one of the passengers is heard telling the authorities that the driver and conductor were stuck inside.
3 killed in coastal Andhra
Three people were reportedly killed in Andhra Pradesh as Cyclone Gulab barrelled through the state after making landfall on Sunday near Kalingapatnam, leaving in its wake a trail of destruction across the two worst-hit districts of Srikakulam and Vizianagaram. Neighbouring Odisha was spared the worst of the cyclone, barring a tapering storm that caused subsidence in parts of the state along with power supply and telecom disruptions.
In AP, the damage was widespread, with the fury of the cyclone throwing power supply and communication networks haywire and flattening crops spread across thousands of acres. A 37-year-old woman identified as D Bhavani was killed at Pendurthi in Vizag when the wall of her house collapsed during the cyclone. In West Godavari, a road transport corporation employee, P Nageswara Rao, was swept away in a flash flood caused by heavy rain. The third cyclone casualty was reported in Srikakulam district.
