Cyclone Fengal makes landfall in India's south

Bengaluru: Heavy rains lashed India s south and a major airport shut operations as cyclone Fengal made landfall late Saturday. Cyclones the equi...

Bengaluru: Heavy rains lashed India's south and a major airport shut operations as cyclone Fengal made landfall late Saturday.

Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific -- are a regular and deadly menace in the northern Indian Ocean.

India's weather bureau said "the forward sector of spiral bands associated with the cyclone has entered into the land" with a forecast of sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres an hour (43-50 miles per hour).

Authorities also said there was a "moderate to high flash flood risk" over a few areas.