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Chennai airport likely to open today

by IBNS 04 Dec 2015, 08:27 pm

Chennai, Dec 5 (IBNS) Flight operations are expected to resume at the Chennai airport on Saturday, even as intermittent rain continues after a short dry spell on Friday.

Many areas of the city, struggling to come back to normalcy after experiencing record rain, are still waterlogged.

Operations at the Chennai airport were shut after a flooded runway forced the cancellation of all flights on Tuesday. 

Tain services will remain suspended till today, officials have said.

Heavy showers lashed the city once again on Friday. It has been raining  since Friday night.  The Met department has predicted "light to moderate" rainfall till Sunday.