Eight people lost their lives on Tuesday in intense floods as Cyclone Michaung was set to make landfall on India’s southern city of Chennai. The Indian Meteorological Department said the cyclone was forecast to hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh state later on Tuesday, as a “severe cyclonic storm”, packing winds up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour. In some parts of the flooded city, people used boats to get out of their flooded neighbourhoods to the safety of government relief shelters. “We are facing the worst storm in recent memory,” Tamil Nadu state chief minister M.K. Apple iPhone manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron and automaker Hyundai suspended their operations in Tamil Nadu due to the storm, local media reported.

Source: Punch December 05, 2023 09:22 UTC