A cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India’s east coast late Sunday, as tens of thousands of people in three states were evacuated to shelters.
The storm system from the Bay of Bengal would bring “strong winds and very heavy extremely heavy rainfall”, the weather bureau added in an advisory Sunday.Odisha and Andhra Pradesh officials had ordered tens of thousands of people living along the coast to move to shelters, as hundreds of emergency workers were sent to the region.
Authorities in West Bengal — to the north of Odisha — said Sunday that, while Gulab appeared unlikely to hit the state directly, they were still taking precautions.“We have so far evacuated more than 20,000 people to schools government offices, which have been turned to cyclone shelters,” Bankim Hazra, a state minister responsible for the low-lying areas, told AFP.
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