{"id":54839,"date":"2014-10-14T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=54839"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:43:35","slug":"21-dead-in-cyclone-hudhud-in-india-54839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/21-dead-in-cyclone-hudhud-in-india-54839\/","title":{"rendered":"21 dead in Cyclone Hudhud in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54841\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cyclone-Hudhud-India-Nationalturk-14.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclone Hudhud hit India on Sunday. \" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclone Hudhud hit India on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>The \u201cvery severe\u201d Cyclone Hudhud that hit two Southern states of the India on Sunday, has caused death of 21 people.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Oct 14\/Nationalturk \u2013 At least 21 people have been killed in India in \u201cvery severe\u201d Cyclone Hudhud that hit two Southern states of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Cyclone Hudhud \u00a0hit two Southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Odhisa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c21people have been killed and many others injured in the devastation caused by the cyclone Hudhud,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They said 16 of the 21 people were killed in \u00a0Andhra Pradesh port town of Visakhapatnam, which bore the maximum brunt of the Sunday storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisakhapatnam&#8217;s airport has been shut down for repairs. Its roof had blown off and the premises had been badly damaged in the cyclone. Flight operations are unlikely to resume in\u00a0 a week,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They said Visakhapatnam, which was practically torn down by the 200kmph windspeed, has lost 80% of its green cover.<\/p>\n<p>The coastal towns of Andhra Pradesh and Odhisa are without electricity as cyclone has uprooted electricity poles and damaged infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h2>Over one million people evacuated<\/h2>\n<p>Over one million people have been evacuated by authorities from the coastal areas of the two Southern States. Many relief camps have been set up for the evacuated people.<\/p>\n<p>Houses and residential properties have been extensively damaged and the officials have termed the situation as &#8220;complete devastation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>People are facing inconvenience as they have no access to water and food supplies from the last three days. The markets are also closed.<\/p>\n<p>Many areas in Visakhapatnam are facing chaotic situation as people crowd around trucks carrying relief material and are attempting to take as many essential supplies as possible.<\/p>\n<h3>PM to conduct aerial survey<\/h3>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake an aerial survey of the cyclone affected areas today to assess the massive devastation caused by Cyclone Hudhud.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his visit, the PM tweeted yesterday, \u201cWill visit Visakhapatnam tomorrow and take stock of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave been constantly taking updates on Cyclone Hudhud,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asia News\/NationalTurk India News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cvery severe\u201d Cyclone Hudhud that hit two Southern states of the India on Sunday, has caused death of 21 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[74123,19943,6807,74119,74121,12662,74059,2546,9233,14090,41689,74120,74118,784,74058,56715,74122],"class_list":["post-54839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-aerial-survey","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-cyclone","tag-cyclone-hudhud","tag-devastation","tag-electricity","tag-hudhud","tag-india","tag-indian-prime-minister","tag-killed","tag-narendra-modi","tag-odhisa","tag-southern-states","tag-storm","tag-very-severe","tag-visakhapatnam","tag-windspeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}