Cyclone Tauktae: At least 16 dead as India’s west coast hit with torrential rain, wind blasts

Cyclone Tauktae intensified into a “very severe cyclonic storm” causing rough seas along the western coast of India, the nation’s Meteorological Department (IMD) reported on Monday. The cyclone has so far killed at least 16 people and left a trail of destruction as it brushed past the coastal states of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra, authorities said.