Cyclone slams into Indian temple town, Bangladesh braces with evacuation order


  • World
  • Friday, 03 May 2019

A woman carries pitchers next to uprooted trees and a fallen signboard following Cyclone Fani in Khordha district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, May 3, 2019. REUTERS/R Narendra

BHUBANESWAR, India/ DHAKA (Reuters) - A cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Friday, damaging houses in the tourist town of Puri and wounding 160 people after a million people were moved into storm shelters.

Trees were uprooted, power and telecom lines snapped as Tropical Cyclone Fani, the strongest storm to hit India in five years, swept ashore the eastern state of Odisha.

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