Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that 8,832 people have been rescued from the flood-affected parts of the state, while 29,280 others have been shifted to safer places.
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Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and some other districts of West Bengal, a day after cyclone Yaas wreaked havoc in several places
At least five persons were killed in West Bengal on Thursday in separate incidents of lightning strike and electrocution, an official of the
disaster management department said.
Three people - two teenage boys in Murshidabad district s Hariharpara and another person in Nakashipara in Nadia district - died after being struck by lightning, he said.
In Purba Medinipur s Nandigram, two young boys were electrocuted to death, the official said. Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and some other districts of West Bengal, a day after cyclone Yaas wreaked havoc in several places in North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas and the tourist hotspot of Digha, but spared Kolkata of any significant damage.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that the cyclonic storm Yaas is going to intensity into a very severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours.
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Howrah: NDRF team announce cyclone related alerts, ahead of landfall of Cyclone Yaas
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm Yaas and is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts on
May 26 after turning into a very severe cyclonic storm, the MeT Department said on Monday. Yaas is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar Islands around noon on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm with wind speeds of 155-165 kmph, Kolkata s Regional Meteorological Centre Deputy Director Sanjib Bandopadhyay said.
The system lays 540 km south-southeast of Paradip in Odisha and 630 km south-southeast of Digha in West Bengal on Monday morning and is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday and into a very severe cyclonic storm by Wednesday morning, the MeT Department said.
18 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in Odisha. Seven teams have been deployed in Balasore, 4 in Bhadrak, 3 in Kendrapada, 2 in Jajpur, one each in Jagatsinghpur and Mayurbhanj. Four teams have been kept as reserve, as per the NDRF.