Cyclone Dana forces over a million evacuations on India's eastern coast as severe winds and rain threaten West Bengal and Odisha.
Over a million people in India have been evacuated ahead of Cyclone Dana, expected to hit West Bengal and Odisha with damaging winds and heavy rain.
Cyclone Dana is likely to hit the coasts of West Bengal and Odisha states — home to around 150 million people — as a “severe cyclonic storm”, India’s weather bureau said. An AFP photographer in Balasore, about 70 kilometres north from the area of expected landfall, reported ferocious rains and trees bending in gales.
Crashing waves are expected to inundate swathes of coastal areas, with water predicted to surge up to two metres above usual tide levels.Odisha’s health minister Mukesh Mahaling told AFP that “nearly a million people from the coastal areas” had been taken to cyclone centres.Businesses in Puri, a popular beach resort, have been ordered to close, and tourists told to leave.
Bangladesh disaster minister Faruk-e-Azam told AFP that authorities were on “high alert” but evacuation orders had not been issued as it was predicted the worst of the storm would hit India.Cyclones — the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific — are a regular and deadly menace in the northern Indian Ocean.
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