{"id":26603,"date":"2021-11-13T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=26603"},"modified":"2021-11-13T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:56:10","slug":"at-least-41-killed-as-heavy-rains-hit-southern-india-and-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-world-news\/at-least-41-killed-as-heavy-rains-hit-southern-india-and-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 41 killed as heavy rains hit southern India and Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi \u2013 November 13 (Online): Heavy rains across southern India and Sri Lanka have killed at least 41 people, authorities said on Thursday, with weather forecasters expecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge.<br \/>\nThe Indian Meteorological Department forecast light to moderate rain in most affected areas, with occasional flooding of some roads and low-lying areas.<br \/>\nCounterparts in neighboring Sri Lanka said rain there was expected to ease from Thursday as the low pressure that brought the bad weather moved away.<br \/>\n&#8220;The worst is over and occasional rains will happen,&#8221; said Pradeep John, an amateur forecaster who is widely followed in Tamil Nadu, India&#8217;s worst-affected state.<br \/>\n&#8220;Today rains will be on and off, with large breaks and nothing alarming.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe rains have killed 25 people in the island nation of Sri Lanka, most of whom drowned, while landslides injured five, officials said.<br \/>\nSixteen people were killed in Tamil Nadu, state disaster management minister KKSSR Ramachandran told a news conference.<br \/>\nMany parts of the state capital, Chennai &#8212; which is India&#8217;s auto manufacturing center &#8212; were waterlogged and government officials used pumps to drain some communities that had been stranded waist deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi \u2013 November 13 (Online): Heavy rains across southern India and Sri Lanka have killed at least 41 people, authorities said on Thursday, with weather forecasters expecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge. 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