Photos: Cyclone Ockhi moves towards Maharashtra, Gujarat; death toll at 47

India Meteorological Department said on Monday that Cyclone Ockhi, is now over the Arabian Sea around 690km south-southwest of Mumbai and 870km south-southwest of Surat, and likely to reach by early Tuesday morning, settling as a deep depression. Ockhi crossed Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep last week. ...read more

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A view of a flooded locality following Cyclone Ockhi in Lakshadweep on Sunday. Leaving behind a trail of destruction in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep, cyclone Ockhi is now over the Arabian Sea around 690km south-southwest of Mumbai and 870km south-southwest of Gujarat’s Surat, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. (PTI)

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Fishermen from Tamil Nadu, who were stranded at sea following Ockhi Cyclone, are brought to Chellanam harbour after they were rescued by Coast Guards, in Kochi on Sunday. Authorities in Tamil Nadu said on Sunday that the number of deaths due to Cyclone Ockhi has reached 19. They also said that at least 690 people have been rescued so far and 96 were still missing. (PTI)

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Union Minister for Defence, Nirmala Sitharaman met with people affected by Cyclone Ockhi in the flood-hit Kanyakumari district on Sunday. Sitharaman said today that representatives of fishermen will also be included in the ongoing search operations in Kerala, adding that warships had been deployed for the rescue operation which is “more intense” than the one during the 2004 tsunami. (PTI)

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Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Alphons Joseph met with the relatives of missing fishermen at Poonthura Coast in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India on December 03, 2017. On Sunday, families of the fishermen blocked roads at several places and defied warnings by the met office and government, venturing out to look for them. (Vivek Nair / HT Photo)

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Residents block a road during a protest demanding the reconstruction of damaged sea walls and rehabilitation for those living by the seashore from the government after flooding caused by Cyclone Ockhi, in the coastal village of Chellanam, Kerala on December 3, 2017. The death toll climbed to 28 in Kerala after a rescue team recovered two more bodies on Monday and officials said at least 90 people were still missing in the state. (Sivaram V / REUTERS)

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Displaced people receive essential supplies at a relief camp in the Kanyakumari district, Kerala on Saturday. The scale of the cyclone was reduced from ‘very severe’ on Sunday to ‘severe’, the weather department said. It has warned fisherman along the Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka coastline not to venture into the sea from Monday to Wednesday. (PTI)

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Naval ships like INS Shardul loaded with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) material sailed out of Kochi port on Friday night for cyclone Ockhi relief. “It (Ockhi) is likely to move north-northeastwards, weaken gradually and cross south Gujarat and north Maharashtra coasts by early Tuesday morning and settle as a deep depression,” IMD’s director general KJ Ramesh said. (PTI)