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Cyclone 'Tauktae' wreaks havoc in Mumbai and adjoining regions

MUMBAI: After passing through coastal areas of Kerala and Karnataka, leaving at least five persons dead, as the 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' Tauktae makes its way to Gujarat, it has wreaked havoc in coastal areas of Maharashtra and Goa with extremely heavy rainfall and strong winds disrupting normal life in several places.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its alert has said that the cyclonic storm is expected to cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Mahuva in Bhavnagar district between 8 pm and 11 pm on Monday night.

According to information coming from coastal areas of Maharashtra several districts of Singdudurg, Ratnagiri and Raigad which has witnessed very heavy rainfall since last night, there have been dozens of reports of falling of trees and some house collapses from several districts. Although there are reports of about a dozen people being injured, no deaths have yet been reported.  

The rescue teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has rescued people from many affected areas and as many as 12,000 citizens have been relocated to safer places from the coastal areas. These include 8,380 people in Raigad, 3,896 in Ratnagiri and 144 in Sindhudurg districts.

Tauktae passed Mumbai by wreaking havoc in the city and the adjoining areas. Till afternoon as many as 26 incidents of house or wall collapse and over 400 incidents of trees being uprooted and branches falling were reported from across the city.

The IMD Mumbai has issued an orange alert for Mumbai and predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied with strong winds reaching 90-100 kmph and gusting to 115 kmph in the city and suburbs in the next 24 hours, with the possibility of extremely heavy rainfall in isolated areas.

While local train services in the city were disrupted due to the heavy rains causing waterlogging on tracks and strong winds of the cyclone, as a precautionary measure flight operations at the Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport were also suspended from early morning until 4 pm on Monday. Mumbai monorail was totally shut today due to the cyclone alert.

As a precautionary measure, the Bandra-Worli Sea link has also been shut and all COVID-19 vaccinations in Mumbai and Thane remained suspended today as well. Around 580 patients had been shifted from jumbo covid centres on Saturday to various other hospitals in the city.

In a major incident accommodation barge of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), barge ‘P 305’, went adrift and capsized off Heera oil fields in Bombay High on Monday night after Cyclone Tauktae broke its mooring and set it adrift. It had 273 persons onboard.

India Navy and Indian Coast Guard Ships at sea have been diverted and directed to rush to Bombay High off Heera oil fields for rescue operations of the stranded crew onboard P-305. A navy spokesperson was quoted by an agency saying that warship INS Kochi was sailed with a despatch for Search and Rescue assistance.


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