Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh): Authorities have begun evacuating people from the southeastern coast on Friday as a storm with winds of 100 km per hour bore down from the Bay of Bengal.
The storm, expected to make landfall on Friday, follows two weeks of heavy rains and floods that have left more than 110 people dead in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
"High winds and heavy rains are hampering our evacuations," said B Udaya Lakshmi, an official in Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra has ordered people living in coastal villages to move into government-built shelters inland.
Fishermen in Andhra Pradesh - where nearly 40 people have died due to rains and floods this month - were told not to go out to sea until Sunday.
In the latest deaths, a woman and her two children drowned in the state's Chittoor district after their car was swept away while crossing a swollen stream on Thursday.
Flights and trains in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu were disrupted following heavy rains and flooding including in parts of the state capital Chennai.
Officials said food packets were being given to thousands of people living in temporary shelters in the city.
In September, at least 50 people died after a Bay of Bengal storm hit the eastern coast of India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
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