4,000 shelters set up, emergency forces on standby in AP, Odisha

Bhubaneswar/ Amaravati: Odisha and Andhra Pradesh have set up nearly 4,000 cyclone shelters, moved thousands of people to safer locations, and put disaster management personnel on standby ahead of the “very severe” cyclonic storm Arnab, which is expected to make landfall near Visakhapatnam in the next 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.

The Indian Railways cancelled at least 50 trains in the region as a precaution, while traffic restrictions were imposed on many coastal roads in the region.

According to the latest bulletin of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the storm was about 140 km southeast of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh and 170 km south of Visakhapatnam at 2.30 pm.