In the 24 hours between 1 and 2 December 2015, Chennai received 500 mm of rain - a deluge not witnessed in living memory.
At least 270 people are thought to have been killed in the resulting floods.
Among them was R Nalini, 54, a sanitation worker at the Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MIOT) Hospitals.
The mother of three young adults, R Gokul Krishnan, 22, and twin sisters, R Keerthana and R Keerthika 20, Nalini was swept away by flood waters on the main road leading to her home, in the Semmancheri housing board, which is just off the city's Information Technology corridor.
Semmancheri was one of the worst affected areas in Chennai. Floods saw most of the houses there submerged in waist-deep water. Full story...
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At least 270 people are thought to have been killed in the resulting floods.
Among them was R Nalini, 54, a sanitation worker at the Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MIOT) Hospitals.
The mother of three young adults, R Gokul Krishnan, 22, and twin sisters, R Keerthana and R Keerthika 20, Nalini was swept away by flood waters on the main road leading to her home, in the Semmancheri housing board, which is just off the city's Information Technology corridor.
Semmancheri was one of the worst affected areas in Chennai. Floods saw most of the houses there submerged in waist-deep water. Full story...
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