Ten people have been killed and thousands more evacuated after a cyclone lashed the south-eastern coast of India with winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from India's southern coast after a severe cyclone hit, uprooting trees, and snapping power and telephones lines.
A police spokesman in Andhra Pradesh state says most of the 10 fell ill and died after they were drenched by rain and the temperature dropped.
The spokesman says the cyclone also collapsed homes, uprooted trees and destroyed banana fields in the state's Krishna district.
The Andhra Pradesh relief commissioner, Ashutosh Mishra, says three fishermen who went to sea before the cyclone hit late on Monday are missing.
He says about 13,000 people have been evacuated out of the coastal districts of Guntur and Krishna.
The meteorological office says the storm has now weakened, but has warned of more heavy rain in south India over the next day.
Ten killed, thousands evacuated as cyclone hits south India
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