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Storm fury: India battered, US braces
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-09-22 06:21
HYDERABAD, India: Heavy downpours killed at least 54 people, and thousands of
others were evacuated as swollen rivers flooded their banks in southwestern
India, officials said yesterday.
Walkers on the
beachfront of Florida's Key West feel the force of the advancing Hurricane
Rita on Tuesday. [AFP] | In Bangladesh nearly
3,500 fishermen were reported missing.
The coastal districts of India's Andhra Pradesh state were battered by
torrential rains following a tropical cyclone that hit the area two days
earlier.
Railroad tracks and major highways connecting cities along the coast were
flooded as the state's two main rivers breached embankments on Tuesday, Shashank
Goel, an official in charge of disaster management, said in Hyderabad, the
capital of Andhra Pradesh.
More than 35,000 residents of low-lying villages have been evacuated to
relief camps set up in government buildings and schools located on higher
ground, Goel said.
Officials said at least 48 people were killed by the strong rains and winds,
which flattened homes, knocked down power lines and uprooted trees. Six people
were killed when their homes in the coastal districts collapsed on Tuesday.
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