Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest to hit India in years, barrels into Bangladesh, killing at least nine people
A marooned elderly couple sit on a log close to their home surrounded by high waters in Khulna on May 4, 2019.
"We are now trying to fix the dam otherwise we will have to pass the night outside," villager Sanjay Mondol toldFerries on large rivers remained out of action but those on smaller waterways resumed operations, and many people were beginning to return home with the wind still strong and skies overcast.
"It's a total mess in islands of the Sunderbans as the cyclone has destroyed everything in its path, fuelling fears rivers could burst their banks and leave vast areas underwater," said Manturam Pakhira, Sunderbans affairs minister.In Kolkata, home to 4.6 million people, 5,000 residents were removed from low-lying areas and old, dilapidated buildings.
Fani made landfall in Odisha on Friday, packing winds gusting up to 200 kilometres an hour, sending coconut trees flying, knocking down power lines and cutting off water and telecommunications. Bangladeshi workers cover a pile of fertiliser with a plastic sheet in Khulna on May 3, 2019, as Cyclone Fani barrels northeastwards into West Bengal state and towards Bangladesh. T
Eastern India is regularly buffeted by cyclones off the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 people killed in Odisha alone in 1999, mostly from a storm surge bringing flooding and debris many miles inland.
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