Images of Cyclone Tauktae that left 27 dead and 100 missing in India

The strongest cyclone to hit the region in decades claims victims in western Indian states Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra Yes Guyarat.

The missing were traveling in a wrecked ship with 273 people on board off Bombay, capital of the state of Maharastrathe Indian Navy announced.

A total of 177 passengers could be rescued in extremely difficult conditions, the navy said on its Twitter account.

Strong winds they dragged many houses improvised and they uprooted trees and electric towers, according to the authorities.

The cyclone devastated the west of the country, whose coast was submerged, turn streets into rivers and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes.

Maharashtra and Gujarat: States hardest hit by Cyclone Tauktae

Six people died and nine were injured in the state of Maharashtra, where authorities closed Mumbai airport for several hours on Monday and asked people to stay safe.

Maharashtra evacuated some 12,500 people coastal areas and in Guyarat over 16,500 the houses were damaged, 40,000 uprooted trees Yes 2.400 villages were without electricity.

Gujarati authorities are currently trying to avoid power outages at 400 hospitals and 41 oxygen factories on the coast, where the cyclone is expected to strike harder.

Covid-19: vaccination suspended in India due to cTauktae iclon

Tauktae rocked India as the Asian giant faces a terrible second wave of coronavirus with more than 4,000 deaths a day, hospitals saturated, healthcare workers on the verge of exhaustion and shortages of oxygen and drugs.

As of Sunday, 580 coronavirus patients hospitalized in three field hospitals had been evacuated to safer places.

At Gujarat all Covid-19 patients hospitalized within five kilometers of the coast have been evacuated, announced the Prime Minister of the State, Vijay Rupani.

Gujarat state, which has so far recorded 9,000 deaths from the virus, according to official information, has suspended the vaccination campaign for two days, and Mumbai has done the same.

India has recorded 4,329 and nearly 280,000 additional infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to nearly 25 million cases, double since April 1, with more than 250,000 deaths.