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Deadly Cyclone Yaas hits India’s eastern coast, villages flooded
Heavy rains and howling winds are lashing eastern India as the COVID-stricken country’s second cyclone in as many weeks makes landfall, killing at least three people in Odisha state and forcing more than 1.2 million people to seek shelter.
Cyclone Yaas, packing gusts of up to 140kmph (87mph), made landfall by destroying tens of thousands of houses, forcing the Balaosre, Bhadrak Coastal areas of Odisha, the closure of the busiest regional airport in the city of Kolkata, and bringing heavy storm surges in Bihar and Jharkhand.
