Bhubaneswar — Storm surges inundated dozens of villages in eastern India on Wednesday after a cyclone moved inland from the Bay of Bengal, damaging thousands of mud homes in two coastal states and killing at least one person, officials said.
Cyclone Yaas was packing gusts of up to 140km/h as it made landfall, days after another storm tore up the western coast, triggering mass evacuations and piling pressure on authorities battling a deadly second wave of the coronavirus...
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