Heavy rains have lashed southern India and Sri Lanka, with coastal regions bracing for a likely cyclonic storm. In Sri Lanka, rescue teams are searching for eight people missing in floods. A deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm.
Dark clouds hover as a man walks along a street in Colombo, Sri Lanka , on Nov 27, 2024. COLOMBO: Heavy rains lashed southern India on Wednesday with coastal regions bracing for a likely cyclonic storm, as rescue teams in neighbouring Sri Lanka searched for eight people missing in floods.
In eastern Sri Lanka, which saw torrential rains since Tuesday, government rescue teams were searching for six children and two men swept away by flash floods while on tractor and trailer. Indian weather officials said a deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to"intensify into a cyclonic storm" overnight Wednesday to Thursday.
India's Meteorological Department issued an alert Wednesday morning of"very heavy" rainfall in parts of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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