India, July 27 -- Schools across three Odisha districts were shut on Monday after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert owing to a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal forecasting extremely heavy rainfall and raising fears of flash floods in these districts.

Schools remained closed in Mayurbhanj, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts as a precautionary measure, while the IMD placed Mayurbhanj under a red warning along with Sundargarh and Keonjhar, where extremely heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places.

The IMD said the deep depression was centred over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining the West Bengal-North Odisha coast at 5:30am on Monday, about 120 km east-southeast of Balasore. The system had mov...