Cyclone Hudhud kills 6 RK News Hyderabad: Cyclone Hudhud has reportedly killed at least six people in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and left Visakhapatnam battered, knocking down electricity and telephone poles, damaging buildings and uprooting trees with winds gusting at almost 200 km per hour on Sunday. Heavy rain is expected in Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and parts of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Cyclone Hudhud has lost speed and weakened since last night and now turned into a deep depression, say weather experts. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said that phone lines are down and cellphone towers have been damaged, making it tough to assess the scale of devastation. Naidu has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the cyclone a national calamity and has asked for a central relief package of Rs. 2,000 crore. The cyclone hit the port city of Visakhapatnam, home to a large naval base, at 11 am on Sunday with winds peaking at nearly 195 km per hour. Five people were killed as walls and roofs collapsed. Nearly four lakh people had been evacuated in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha hours before the cyclone hit the coasts.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:51:26 +0000