Climate change-induced rains flood Indian city

India's fourth most populous city, Chennai,
 under water as climate change
brings worst rains in a century.

Chennai: The Indian military has evacuated more than 2000 residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest rains in more than a century.

Forecasts of more rain over the next 48 hours forced the army to work on a war footing to rescue survivors trapped in inundated parts of Chennai, India's fourth most populous city.

Chennai saw only slight rains on Thursday, but water levels had not receded since Wednesday morning, when a massive release of water from a brimming reservoir swamped low-lying areas of the city.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has blamed climate change for the deluge, travelled to Chennai to get a first-hand view of a rescue effort that has so far been halting.

Read the story from today’s Melbourne Age - “India floods: Army on war footing to rescue survivors as death toll nears 270.”