Life was thrown out of gear on the southern Andhra Pradesh coast on Tuesday as heavy rain and high-velocity winds triggered by Cyclone Michaung lashed Bapatla town and nearby villages, uprooting trees and electric poles.
The severe cyclonic storm made its landfall from half past noon to 2.30 p.m. close to the south of Bapatla with a maximum sustained wind speed of 90-100 kmph.
Three persons were killed in rain-related incidents. While two were killed after a portion of a poultry unit collapsed in Eluru district, a constable of the APSP battalion in Kadapa was killed when a tree fell on him when he was riding a motorcycle in the Siddavatam forest range.
