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Nearly 470,000 taken shelter in temporary relief camps
The death toll from Cyclone Fengal's fierce push through Sri Lanka and southern India reached 20 yesterday as downpours and flooding followed the storm's wake after its winds calmed.
Fengal made landfall in India's Tamil Nadu state on Saturday, bringing the highest 24-hour rainfall seen in 30 years to nearby Puducherry, before weakening to a normal low pressure weather system by yesterday morning.
More deaths were reported on Sri Lanka after Fengal skirted the island nation on Friday bringing intense rains that triggered landslides.
Sri Lanka's disaster management agency said a total of 17 people had been killed in the country while nearly 470,000 others were taking shelter in temporary relief camps.
India recorded three deaths from electrocution as a result of the storm, Tamil Nadu disaster management minister KKSSR Ramachandran told reporters late Saturday.
He did not give further details on what caused the deaths, adding that damage from the cyclone was otherwise "minimal".
The death toll from Cyclone Fengal's fierce push through Sri Lanka and southern India reached 20 yesterday as downpours and flooding followed the storm's wake after its winds calmed.
Fengal made landfall in India's Tamil Nadu state on Saturday, bringing the highest 24-hour rainfall seen in 30 years to nearby Puducherry, before weakening to a normal low pressure weather system by yesterday morning.
More deaths were reported on Sri Lanka after Fengal skirted the island nation on Friday bringing intense rains that triggered landslides.
Sri Lanka's disaster management agency said a total of 17 people had been killed in the country while nearly 470,000 others were taking shelter in temporary relief camps.
India recorded three deaths from electrocution as a result of the storm, Tamil Nadu disaster management minister KKSSR Ramachandran told reporters late Saturday.
He did not give further details on what caused the deaths, adding that damage from the cyclone was otherwise "minimal".