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nitpicker

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Thu May 2, 2019, 06:21 AM May 2019

Cyclone Fani: India evacuates 800,000 from coastal areas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/tropical-cyclone-fani-india-evacuates-800000-people

Cyclone Fani: India evacuates 800,000 from coastal areas

Staff and agencies

Thu 2 May 2019 10.20 BST First published on Thu 2 May 2019 06.36 BST

India has begun the evacuation of 800,000 people and deployed emergency personnel as the country’s east coast braces for a severe cyclonic storm.

Tropical Cyclone Fani, located in the Bay of Bengal and packing wind speeds up to 205 km (127 miles) per hour, is expected to make landfall on the coast of Odisha state on Friday.

The state’s authorities said they hoped to have evacuated 800,000 people from the state’s coastal districts by Thursday morning.

Odisha has also moved in thousands of disaster management personnel to help those living in mud-and-thatch homes in low-lying areas take shelter from Fani.
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The neighbouring coastal states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have also been put on high alert.

India’s national disaster management authority (NDMA) said sea conditions were “phenomenal” over the west-central Bay of Bengal area.

Authorities at ports in Paradip and Visakhapatnam ordered ships to move out to sea to avoid damage.
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nitpicker

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1. Update from DW
Fri May 3, 2019, 12:36 AM
May 2019
https://www.dw.com/en/cyclone-fani-makes-landfall-in-india/a-48580125

Cyclone Fani makes landfall in India

Date 03.05.2019

Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest storms to come off the Indian Ocean in recent years, made landfall in eastern India at 8 a.m. local time (0230 UTC) on Friday, the country's Meteorological Department said.

The department said wind speeds were between 175 and 185 kilometers per hour (109 and 115 miles per hour). The eye of the storm, currently located over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to make landfall within two hours.
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