Cyclone Michaung Live Updates: Heavy downpour in Chennai causes disruption to normal life

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Catch all the LIVE Updates on Cyclone Michaung hereCyclone Michaung live: As Cyclone Michaung approaches towards the North Tamil Nadu coast, several areas of Chennai were left inundated due to heavy rainfall and severe waterlogging. The rainwater accumulated to the extent that the vehicles were completely submerged in water.

Heavy spell of rain throughout the night has caused waterlogging in the state due to which traffic jams were witnessed in several parts of the city. Cyclone Michaung live: 11 express trains have been cancelled after the water level breached the danger mark in the Basin Bridge-Vyasarpadi section.

Amidst heavy rainfall and waterlogging, train services in all the Chennai Suburban sections have been temporarily halted for 8 hours. Only Passenger Specials will be operated in these sections until further advice, as reported by ANI.Two people died and one was critically injured at Chennai East Coastal Road on Monday morning amid the incessant rainfall that lashed several parts of Chennai with very strong wind, police said.According to the police, the deceased have been identified as Shek Afraj and MD Tofik from Jharkhand.

The police said that amid heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds, a newly constructed wall collapsed in the Kanathur area, East Coastal Road, Chennai, this morning."Two died and one was critically injured in the incident," they added. Further investigation into the matter is underway.Cyclone Michaung live: In view of the upcoming cyclone 'Michaung', expected to hit the west-central Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts, the Puducherry district administration imposed Section 144 of the IPC on the coastal areas close to the sea shore of