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KOLKATA, Sept 27 — Two fishermen were reported dead after a cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India’s east coast late Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 200,000 people in three states to shelters. Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many...

KOLKATA, Sept 27 — Two fishermen were reported dead after a cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India’s east coast late Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 200,000 people in three states to shelters.

Cyclone Gulab made landfall between the coastal states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh just after 6:00pm local time , bearing gusts of up to 95 kilometres per hour, the state-run India Meteorological Department said. Three fishermen swam to shore, two others died and a sixth person from the vessel were still missing, theThere were also early reports of trees being uprooted as the cyclone hit a coastal district in Andhra Pradesh. Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal had ordered tens of thousands of people to move to shelters, after forecasts that the storm from the Bay of Bengal would bring “strong winds and very heavy extremely heavy rainfall”.

In West Bengal north of Odisha, authorities, fearful that Gulab could wreak havoc despite being unlikely to hit the state directly, said they still carried out evacuations.

 

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