Second cyclone hits Yemen s Socotra Island


(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

SANA'A Yemen 8th November 2015 (WAM) --- Another cyclone made landfall in Yemen's Socotra Island Sunday with winds of 204 kmh - the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane- prompting the Yemeni government's meteorology centre to post an urgent appeal to save residents from the second tropical storm in a week.

Heavy winds rain and flash floods slammed into Socotra as the storm named Megh hit the island already badly battered by last week's cyclone Chapala.

Socotra is a small Yemeni island in the Arabian Sea some 350 kilometres off the coastline of Yemen.


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