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in India's Odisha state and neighbouring Bangladesh after cyclone Fani barrelled into the region on May 3, packing winds of up to 200 kilometres an hour.
"The destruction has taken place over a very large area. The damage to power infrastructure is unprecedented," Bishnupada Sethi, special relief commissioner of Odisha state, told AFP.Sethi, who is overseeing relief efforts in Odisha, said that the cyclone-affected around 16.5 million people in the state.
Officials said that power had only been restored to around 50 percent of the one million residents in the state capital Bhubaneswar, while the most extensive damage hit the neighbouring city of Puri, where the cyclone made landfall. Puri, which is home to around 200,000 people, is also one of the country's most important Hindu pilgrimage sites including the ancient Shree Jagannath Temple and the Sun Temple. A team from the Archaeological Survey of India is currently assessing the damage to both the World Heritage monuments."The damage has happened over a very big area but we have... already restored the water supplies to pre-cyclone levels. Even the road and communication network has been restored.
But local media reports said the situation on the ground remained dire, prompting survivors to protest over the sluggish pace of relief efforts.
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