Domestic passenger flights to resume from flood-hit Indian city
Xinhua, December 6, 2015 Adjust font size:
Domestic passenger flight operations from the flood-hit Indian city Chennai, which were suspended, will resume from Sunday morning, said officials Saturday.
"Day-time all weather operations for domestic commercial flights from Chennai airport will commence from 6 a.m. tomorrow," the Airports Authority of India said in a statement.
At least 340 people have died of rain-related incidents in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which has Chennai as its state capital, since the Northeast Monsoon started on Oct. 28.
Eighteen people died this week in a Chennai hospital's ICU because of lack of oxygen, while most of the city came under water.
Incessant rains have also caused floods in the neighboring union territory of Pundecherry, a resort former French colonial city.
Indian government has declared a state of disaster in Tamil Nadu and the Indian military has been helping rescue people from marooned areas to safe places, while authorities are fighting with time to send rescue goods to the disaster-hit areas.
The state suffered the worst flood in 100 years and the loss of properties are estimated at billions of U.S. dollars. Enditem