PICS: Millions evacuated to safety as CycloneFani batters eastern India
Motorcycles lie on a street in Puri district after Cyclone Fani hit the coastal eastern state of Odisha, India. Picture: APLocals shift their goats in a country boat to safer places after Cyclone Fani hit the coastal eastern state of Odisha, in river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India. Picture: Anupam Nath/APFallen electric poles are pictured after Cyclone Fani hit Puri, India. Picture: ReutersPeople move past a damaged vehicle after Cyclone Fani hit Puri.
In neighbouring Bangladesh, where the storm was expected Saturday evening, four people died in a rice field in a lighting strike, police said. Tens of thousands of trees were uprooted and summer crops, orchards and plantations were also devastated on a large scale. Schools were closed, and flights and trains in Odisha were also cancelled, state disaster management official Prabhat Ranjan Mahapatra said. Naval warships and helicopters were on standby with relief materials and medical teams.
"But so many lives have potentially been saved because of the timely and large-scale evacuation. The damage by the storm could have been far greater," he claimed.
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