A second landslide hit the Tamil Nadu temple city of Tiruvannamalai Monday afternoon, a day after a primary led to a boulder falling on a residential constructing and trapping 5 to seven folks, of whom at the least one has died.
The first happened Sunday at 4.30 pm on the decrease slopes of the well-known Annamalaiyar Hill after heavy rainfall – courtesy Cyclone Fengal, which crossed the coast Saturday afternoon close to capital Chennai – battered the district.
Rescue ops – aided by a workforce of specialists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai – are ongoing, however have been hampered by heavy rain and the specter of one other boulder balanced precariously additional uphill. Fortunately, nevertheless, two of the seven trapped have been rescued to this point.
The second landslide was at a spot close to an area temple.
The southern state has obtained heavy rainfall since Fengal made landfall.
That rainfall continued Monday, two days later, with Viluppuram district in northern Tamil Nadu battling unprecedented floods; washed out bridges and overflowing nearly blocked entry to villages and residential colonies, as additionally damaging acres of crops and affecting rail site visitors.
Over in western Tamil Nadu, components of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts additionally noticed report floods. Uthangarai in Krishnagiri received 50 centimetres in 24 hours until 8.30 am, whereas Villupuram obtained 42 cm, Harur in Dharmapuri 33 cm, and Cuddalore and Tiruvannamalai 16 cm.
Tragic movies have emerged on-line of autos, together with giant buses on the bus station in Uthangiri, the place it has rained for 14 hours straight, being dragged off the street by floodwaters.
A senior Weather Department official informed information company PTI the extraordinarily heavy rainfall in components of Tamil Nadu was because of the remnants of the cyclone, which is now positioned as a powerful low-pressure space over the northern a part of the state.
In truth, so robust are these remnants that rainfall alerts have additionally been sounded for northern Kerala and southern Karnataka. The system is predicted to accentuate because it strikes to the Arabian Sea, passing over northern Kerala and Karnataka by December 3, the India Meteorological Department mentioned.
Meanwhile, over the weekend part of the airport in Chennai was flooded and a whole bunch of passengers have been impacted after a number of flight cancellations. Operations have been suspended until 4 am Sunday.
At least two folks have died to this point, one in every of whom was a migrant employee who tried to withdraw money from an ATM in Chennai. He was reportedly electrocuted.
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Fengal skirted the coast of Sri Lanka earlier this week, killing at the least 12 folks together with six youngsters.
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