The storm Tauktae is described as the worst in 30 years in the western part of the country.
Wind gusts of up to 49 meters per second are expected when the cyclone hits the state of Gujarat later Monday. In the Atlantic, this would be equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane.
Already this weekend, six people died when torrential rain and strong winds hit areas in southern India.
On Monday morning, the Main Rescue Center in southern Norway received two emergency messages from ships outside Mumbai as a result of the cyclone.
– It is quite common that we receive messages from abroad, as the system used is international and goes via satellite, rescue leader Oddgeir Andersen explains to Dagbladet.
He says that 265 people are evacuated from one ship, while the other ship takes in water.
– It is the rescue center in Mumbai that coordinates the rescue operations, Andersen says.
Over a hundred thousand people have been evacuated, and the authorities are working to ensure that there is no power in hospitals that treat corona patients.
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Hit hard
India has been hit very hard by the corona pandemic in recent months.
At the time of writing, it is according to figures from John Hopkins University Nearly 25 million Indians have been affected by the virus and 274,390 deaths so far, but according to Reuters Several experts believe that the real numbers may be five to ten times higher.
