(MENAFN- QNA) Two people died as heavy rains lashed south India's port city of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state as Cyclone Hudhud made landfall here this afternoon.
The cyclone whipped up speeds up to 170 to 180kmph which left two people dead in Vishakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts, a Press Trust of India report said today.
The cyclone triggered large-scale destruction of power lines leading to outages in the three districts.
A weather bureau official said, the cyclone wind speed will come down by 50 per cent in the next six hours. The average sea wave surge was 1.5 meter and will vary from one to two meters in places as the cyclone crosses Vizag.
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