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Rahul Gandhi to meet families of missing fishermen in Cyclone Ochki-hit Tamil Nadu

by IBNS 14 Dec 2017, 08:34 am

Chennai, Dec 14 (IBNS): Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi on Thursday will visit Tamil Nadu where 400 fishermen are still missing after Cyclone Ochki hit the state in late November, media reports said.

Rahul will be meeting the family members of the fishermen to hear their distress.
 
Though the Tamil Nadu government initially claimed 100 fishermen went missing, the actual figure is 398, reports said.
 
Ockhi had devastated normal lives in many areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
 
In Kanyakumari and Thoothukudi districts of Tamil Nadu, strong winds uprooted more than 500 trees, snapped power lines and damaged settlements close to the sea.
 
The name Ockhi was given by Bangladesh, under the the tropical cyclone naming system initiated by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in 2000.