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Cyclone Fani lashes eastern India

cde.news desk 3 May 2019, 14:10 · 1 min read

epaselect epa07544227 Locals waiting as tourists are evacuted before Cyclone Fani made landfall at neighbouring West Midnapore of West Bengal some 200 km west of Kolkata, Eastern India, 03 May 2019. According to news reports, Cyclone Fani first made landfall in the Puri district and will continue moving further to West Bengal and Tamilnadu. The National Disaster Response Force and the Indian Coast Guard have been put on high alert as the Cyclone was termed as 'Very Severe', and around 800,000 people were evacuated along the eastern coast of India with Indian Army and Indian Air Force units put on ststandbyandby. EPA-EFE/PIYAL ADHIKARY EPA-EFE/PIYAL ADHIKARY

Cyclone Fani on Friday made a landfall in Puri, Odisha, in eastern India bringing with it wind of around 180 km per hour.

Some 1.08 million people have been evacuated to safer places from 11 coastal districts and initial reports indicate that there have been human casualties.

While over 140 trains have been either cancelled or re-routed on 3 May and 4 May due to the cyclone, flights operations have been suspended at Bhubaneswar airport. Paradip and Gopalpur ports have suspended operations and tourists have been directed not to venture out in coastal Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh.

Cyclone Fani makes landfall in Odisha coast — Damgaed motorcyles on the highway after cyclone Fani made landfall in Odisha coast, at Konark in Puri district Odisha, India.

Neighbouring West Bengal also decided to close an airport at Kolkata, the state capital. Hundreds of thousands of people had been given evacuation orders in the state.

Close to 60 km inland, high winds uprooted trees and electricity poles in the state capital, Bhubaneswar, where authorities had ordered the airport to stay closed. Schools and colleges in Odisha were also shut.

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Hundreds of disaster management personnel were deployed in the state. Doctors and other medical staff were told to defer any leave until May 15.

Via CNN/ Times of India/BBC

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