CNN quoted an Indian Interior Ministry spokesman as saying nearly 300,000 people were evacuated to 700 shelter houses. Schools in the affected districts closed until the end of June 14.
With winds of more than 120 km / h, super typhoon Vayu, named after Hindi meaning "wind", could become the strongest storm to attack northwestern India in decades. The storm came just a month after the typhoon Fani attacked the northeastern coast of India. On June 12, Vayu crossed about 200km west of Mumbai before landing in Gujarat state on the west coast of India on 13-6.
Prepare the coping force
After Indian Interior Minister Amit Shah held an emergency meeting with government and military officials on June 11, the National Disaster Response Force was deployed to the area.
39 teams of the National Disaster Response Force - each team has about 45 people - mobilized to help local authorities carry out evacuation, search, rescue and relief activities. The army also prepared 34 teams ready to wait for orders. By 11-3 noon, they began evacuating more than 25,000 people living in the most vulnerable towns and villages of the storm. Fishermen were warned about dangerous waters before the storm hit. The wave forecast can be as high as 2 meters, flooding part of the low coast of Kutch district in Gujarat. India’s Bureau of Meteorology also warned of the possibility of heavy rain (more than 200 mm) along with winds of over 135 km / h along the Gujarat coast.
In the financial capital of Mumbai, police warned on Twitter that high winds, heavy rains and lightning would happen when Vayu came in, people "should not risk the sea and should keep a safe distance from the coast" . Gujarat state governor, Vijay Rupani, has asked social media to report that tourists leave the coastal area in the afternoon of June 12.
The strongest storm in 20 years
Strong tropical storms rarely occur in the far northern region of the Arabian Sea and the state of Gujarat has never suffered such a strong storm in the last 20 years.
If the forecast for Vayu is correct, this is the strongest storm to attack the region since 1998, when a tropical storm with winds of 195 km / h attacked about 10,000 people. .g. This is the second largest storm of the year for India, after the super typhoon Fani in early May. Fani, attacking Puri city in the state of Odisha, is located in India’s eastern sea on the Bay of Bengal, with strength wind 240 km / h, equivalent to a level 4 storm. The storm caused 34 Indians to die, mainly due to collapsing trees, as well as taking the lives of 15 people in the country Neighboring Bangladesh.
