NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 14, Reuter: A cyclone lashed Southeast India’s rice bowl state of Andhra Pradesh for the second time in two weeks, killing at least 25 people, officials and press reports said on Saturday.
Cyclonic winds and torrential rains battered coastal areas near Nellore destroying more than 300 homes, and uprooting trees and telegram poles.
The storm damaged 50,000 hectares (123,000 acres) of rice fields and caused the evacuation of more than 30,000 people, officials said.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said 18 of the 25 deaths occurred in Guntur and Prakasam districts further north on the bay of Bengal coast.
Thirty-eight people were killed earlier this month when a cyclone battered the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh for three days.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 20, 1987
