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Storm kills two in West Bengal; Odisha, others evacuate lakhs
Updated On: 26 May, 2021 08:15 AM IST | Bhubaneswar | Agencies
The natural event struck hours before cyclone ‘Yaas’ makes landfall near Dhamra Port in Odisha’s Bhadrak district early on Wednesday, in the wake of which the Bengal government has evacuated over nine lakh people to safe shelters.
A civic worker cuts tree branches after a few trees uprooted due to strong wind induced by Cyclone Yaas in Kolkata on Tuesday. Pic/PTI
Two people were electrocuted to death and around 80 houses partly damaged after a storm, which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a “tornado”, hit Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts on Tuesday.
A flooded house after heavy rains owing to the cyclone, in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday. Pic/AFP
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