May 27, 2021
published at 1:39 AMReuters
A woman stands next to her stall damaged by heavy winds at a shore ahead of Cyclone Yaas in Bichitrapur in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha India, May 26, 2021.
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A powerful cyclone swept into eastern India from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday (May 26), inundating hundreds of low-lying villages, making more than 50,000 people homeless and killing at least one person, officials said.
Cyclone Yaas was packing gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph) as it made landfall, days after another storm tore up the western coast, triggering mass evacuations and piling pressure on authorities battling a deadly second wave of the coronavirus.
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Hundreds of thousands of villagers along the low-lying coast of eastern India and Bangladesh were marooned by floodwaters in the aftermath of Cyclone Yaas.
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