Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless after a cyclone packing winds...
PURI, India - Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless after a cyclone packing winds of about 200 km per hour slammed into eastern India, ripping out tin roofs and destroying power and telecom lines, officials said on Sunday.
The death toll could have been much greater if not for the massive evacuation in the days before the storm made landfall, officials said. The depression over the Western Meghalaya and adjoining Bangladesh has weakened, and will become insignificant in the next 24 hours, India’s met department said on Twitter early on Sunday.
The relief effort used sirens, loudspeakers and sent more than 20 million mobile messages to the targeted people, he said.
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