Cyclone Yaas Leaves More Than 1.5 Lakh Homeless in Eastern India 28/05/2021
A man removes the bamboo rooftop of a damaged hut following Cyclone Yaas in Digha, Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal, May 27, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Kolkata: More than 150,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath of a cyclone that unleashed storm surges in eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday, with heavy rains hampering relief work in some low-lying coastal areas.
At least five people were killed in the two countries after Cyclone Yaas moved inland from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, packing gusts of up to 140 kmph and whipping up tidal surges in India’s West Bengal state and neighbouring Bangladesh.
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At least three people died and tens of thousands were made homeless when a powerful cyclone swept into eastern India from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, inundating hundreds of low-lying villages, officials said.
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.