Threat of any further destruction by Laila in coastal Andhra Pradesh dissipated on Friday as the cyclonic storm gradually weakened into severe depression and then into depression over coastal Andhra Pradesh. According to the latest press release of Indian Meteorological Department, it lay centered about 100 km west of Kakinada.
Khai Muk, the tropical cyclone in the south-east Bay of Bengal which was threatening to strike coastal Andhra region since Friday, has weakened, the Cyclone Warning Center at Visakhapatanam said on Saturday. "It is likely to weaken further into a depression or even low pressure," S Venkateshwarulu, director of CWC, told rediff.com.Earlier, the state government had put the administration in all the nine coastal districts on high alert to deal with the situation.
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