At least 19 people were killed and many others injured in several states across the western coast of India due to the impact of cyclone Tauktae, local media reported on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Indian Navy launched a search operation to trace the 96 missing people out of the 217 who were aboard barge P305 that first went adrift and subsequently sank at an offshore oilfield in Mumbai on Tuesday morning.

According to reports, 12 people died in Maharashtra and Karnataka states, three in Gujarat state, and two each in Goa and Kerala states.

The cyclone Tauktae made landfall at 8:30 p.m. local time on Monday in India's western Gujarat state with wind gusts of 190 kilometers per hour, damaging houses and trees, and forcing people to flee.

The cyclone, at its peak classified as "extremely severe," barreled along India's western coast, narrowly missing the country's financial capital city of Mumbai.

Authorities have evacuated many people from the affected areas.

A Navy spokesperson said 177 people have been rescued as the search and rescue operation continued in extremely challenging circumstances.