The populous Indian state of West Bengal took the brunt of CycloneAmphan, which pounded eastern India and Bangladesh leaving a trail of destruction while authorities struggled to mount relief efforts amid a surging coronavirus outbreak
The populous Indian state of West Bengal took the brunt of Cyclone Amphan, which barrelled out of the Bay of Bengal with gusting winds of up to 185 km per hour and a storm surge of around five metres.
With rains continuing, she said the hardest hits areas were not immediately accessible. Federal authorities said they could only make a proper assessment of the destruction on Thursday morning. An official in the adjoining Hooghly district said thousands of mud homes were damaged by raging winds. A man crosses a flooded street after Cyclone Amphan made its landfall, in Kolkata, India, May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Cyclones frequently batter parts of eastern India and Bangladesh between April and December, often forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands and causing widespread damage.Surging waters broke through embankments surrounding an island in Bangladesh’s Noakhali district, destroying more than 500 homes, local official Rezaul Karim said.
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