Cyclone Lashes Southern India, Killing at Least 21
"There was no scientific means of establishing that this was going to become a cyclone."
But fishermen, saying the government had been slow to notify people of the storm, organized protests on Saturday in Kerala and in Tamil Nadu, blocking roads and pooling resources and boats to try to locate the missing.
Speaking to the families of missing fishermen in Tamil Nadu villages, India’s defense minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, said on Sunday
that the country’s navy, air force and coast guard were doing everything possible to try to find the missing fishermen.
The storm, Cyclone Ockhi, caught many fishermen off guard over the weekend after it formed quickly in the Arabian Sea
and began lashing the Lakshadweep Islands and coastlines in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
4, 2017
NEW DELHI — A powerful cyclone sweeping through southern India has killed at least 21 fishermen
and stranded more than 90 others at sea, according to a government official in the state of Kerala.
The India Meteorological Department said the cyclone was expected to weaken gradually in
the next couple of days as it moved north toward the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Sekhar Lukose Kuriakose said that There was no forewarning,