Cyclone batters India, causes at least five deaths
World
Wed, May 26, 2021
Howling winds and waves, the height of double-decker buses, belted eastern India causing at least five deaths in the COVID-stricken country's second cyclone.
Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms the waters of the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.
Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, Cyclone Yaas has forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million people in the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha.