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		</div><p>At least 14 people have died in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu during several days of heavy rains, officials have said.</p>
<p>Several districts in the state are on high alert, braced for more torrents as a weather depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was set to cross northern Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening.</p>
<p>The Indian Meteorological Department warned of intense rains in isolated places.</p>
<p>The heavy rains first struck over the weekend, hitting the capital, Chennai.</p>
<p>Photos and videos from the city showed residents wading through knee-deep waters and vehicles nearly submerged in heavily flooded roads.</p>
<p>Two people had died in the last 24 hours, N Subbaiyan, the director of the state’s disaster management, said.</p>
<p>He added that the other 12 people had been killed over the past few days.</p>
<p>At least 800 huts had been destroyed this past week by the rains, Kumar Jayant, from the state’s revenue department, said.</p>
<p>Multiple teams from the National Disaster Response Force had been deployed to help local authorities with rescue efforts.</p>
<p>In Chennai, which is among the worst-hit areas, officials had evacuated hundreds of people from vulnerable areas.</p>
<p>Authorities had also set up more than 100 relief centres and distributed food, local media reported.</p>
<p>Flights into Chennai had been suspended.</p>
<figure id="attachment_171103" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-171103" style="width: 886px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/F1891577-8988-4071-9C4F-9ED5769FBE1B.jpeg" alt="" width="886" height="583" class="size-full wp-image-171103" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-171103" class="wp-caption-text">A man pushes his bicycle through a flooded street in Chennai</figcaption></figure>
<p>The rains this week are among the heaviest to hit the city since 2015.</p>
<p>Experts have warned that more heavy rains could trigger further flooding and devastation.</p>
<p>“The public should not go out,” Greater Chennai Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi previously told New Delhi Television.</p>
<p>He said authorities had managed to drain the majority of the floodwaters, but cautioned that low-lying areas could once again become inundated.</p>
<p>Rains at this time in Tamil Nadu are not unusual, but experts have warned that climate change has exacerbated the problem, making the downpours more intense and frequent.</p>
<p>Last month, flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 28 people in neighbouring Kerala state.</p>
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