Cyclone Bulbul to wane after claiming 11 lives in India, Bangladesh
New Delhi/Dhaka - Cyclone Bulbul lashed coastal areas in eastern India and southern Bangladesh overnight, killing 11 people, forcing mass evacuations and leaving a trail of destruction in the region, officials said on Sunday.
The cyclone brought heavy rains and winds with speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour as it made landfall on Saturday night in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest between India and Bangladesh, on the coastline of the Bay of Bengal. In India, one man was killed when a tree fell on him in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, police confirmed.
Six more people died, mostly in incidents of wall collapses in the North 24 Parganas and East Medinipur districts, state disaster officials said. In the neighbouring state of Odisha, another person died in another incident of a wall collapse, state disaster management chief PK Jena said.
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