500,000 Families May Be Homeless Due To Devastation From Cyclone Amphan

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500,000 Families May Be Homeless Due To Devastation From Cyclone Amphan
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India and Bangladesh are attempting to dig out from under the brutal damage inflicted by Cyclone Amphan.

The storm has passed, but massive clean-up operations are now underway in India and Bangladesh after Cyclone Amphan claimed more than 90 lives and caused aSHATKHIRA, KHULNA, BANGLADESH - 2020/05/21: Village people try to repair the broken dam after thelandfall of cyclone Amphan in Satkhira. At least 15 people in Bangladesh and 72 people in India died after cyclone Amphan to hit parts of Bangladesh and eastern India.

The hardest-hit area was West Bengal, which bore the cyclone's brunt, with the local government declaring that approximately 60% of the population was affected.that the destruction inflicted by Amphan likely cost north of $13 billion in West Bengal alone.

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