A powerful cyclone is dumping rain on coastal India and Bangladesh as more than 2 million people are being moved to shelters.
A three-week lockdown affecting 1.3 billion people has unleashed chaos as stranded migrant workers sleep in streets and police beat curfew-breakers.
The densely populated city of Kolkata, which has nearly 1,500 cases of the coronavirus, is likely to see flooding, while some centuries-old buildings in the northern half of the city could collapse due to the strong winds.Get breaking news, investigations, analysis and more signature journalism from the Los Angeles Times in your inbox.Advertisement
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