5 dead as rain wreaks havoc in Tamil Nadu
TAMIL NADU IS LIKELY TO GET HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS, THE RMC IN CHENNAI PREDICTED
CHENNAI:THE regional meteorological centre in Chennai on Sunday predicted more showers over the next two days and issued a red alert for six districts in Tamil Nadu. Torrential rain over the past two days claimed five lives.
“Thiruvallur, Vellore, Thiruvannamalai, Thoothukkudi, Ramanathapuram and Tirunelveli districts in Tamil Nadu would receive extremely heavy rainfall (above 20cm) in the next 24 hours,” the IMD’S Chennai regional centre alerted.
According to Puviyarasan, Director, Regional Meteorological Center (RMC) Chennai, Tamil Nadu will get heavy rainfall for the next two days.
“In the past 24 hours, Thoothukkudi’s Sathankulam town had recorded 19 cm rainfall. Cuddalore had received 17 cm, and Thirunelveli district got 16 cm of rainfall. Due to the low-pressure area near Lakshadweep storms could occur in the South-eastern Arabian Sea. So, fishermen should not venture into the sea for the next few days,” the RMC director told reporters.
He said Tamil Nadu had received 39 cm of rainfall since October 1 during this North-east Monsoon season.
Three people were killed in separate incidents of wall collapse in different parts of the stete on Saturday. Duraikkanu, 70, a resident of Moonram Sethi village in Thanjavur district, Ravichandran, 50, from Paravakkottai in Thiruvarur district and Poongodhai, 50, a physically challenged person in Ariyalur district died on Saturday.
In Pudukkottai, 50-year-old Kandasamy died when his twowheeler slipped due to heavy rain and Sheik Ali, 46, a resident of Ambattur in Chennai died after falling into a drain on Saturday night.
The heavy rain has left several sub-urban areas of Chennai water logged. Chennai administration declared leave for schools and colleges on Monday.
A flood alert to villagers on the banks of the Sankarabarani river in Puducherry was sounded on Sunday. The alert comes in the wake of the decision of the Tamil Nadu government to release water from Veedur dam in Villupuram district on Monday.