AKIPRESS.COM - Many parts of India's Chennai and its suburbs are flooded after two days of heavy and continuous rain.

Flight operations have been indefinitely suspended at the airport, trains have been cancelled and the army is helping rescue stranded people.

Around 400 passengers are stranded at the Chennai airport, where water has entered the runway, reaching the under carriage of aircraft.

Flights cannot take off till the water level recedes, airport director Deepak Shastri told NDTV. Till 10 pm on Tuesday, nine flights had been cancelled. 13 trains have also been cancelled with water flooding rail tracks.