A strong cyclone made landfall in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people have moved to shelters across the low-lying delta nation's vast coastal region.
Mechanized boats and ferries stand moored at an empty jetty as ferry services were suspended due to cyclonic storm, on the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. Authorities in nearby Bangladesh put more than 50,000 volunteers on standby and readied about 5000 shelters as a strong cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is expected to hit the low-lying nation's vast southwestern and southern coast on Saturday evening.
The cyclone was packing winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 130 kph , but was forecast to weaken after crossing the coast. It slammed ashore near Sagar Island and its path included the southwestern Khulna region, which has the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, which straddles the Bangladesh-India border.
The storm is also expected to impact parts of northeastern India, where precautions were also being taken. On Saturday, volunteers used loudspeakers to ask people to move to shelters in Chittagong and other regions, according to the Disaster Management Ministry. In the Cox’s Bazar coastal district, tourists were alerted to stay in their hotels, while a few hundred visitors were stuck on Saint Martins Island.
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