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The cyclone Amphan: Kolkata residents have shared several videos that show the impact of the cyclone
Calcutta:
Cars collide with each other, the heavy rains and strong winds pound of Calcutta as the Cyclone Amphan hit the capital of West Bengal today, videos show. The winds over speeds of 100 km/hr have hit Kolkata and the surrounding areas accompanied by heavy rain as the Cyclone Amphan touched earth today to the Sunderbans, a region that is swampy.
Citizens have shared several videos and photos of their homes that show the impact of the cyclone. Parked cars hit each other due to strong wind, display visual elements of the City to the South of Apartments – a high in the city of the south.
Howling winds pounded against the doors, broke the glass windows and uprooted trees, a south Kolkata resident shares her terrifying experience with NDTV.
“It’s actually quite scary now. The winds were howling for quite some time, now the doors are knocking, several of the glass windows in my apartment complex have been broken. You can actually see the wind swirling around and the rain is going up,” Arnab Basu told NDTV.
The Meteorological Department of India warned of possible flying objects, “extensive” damage to communication and power lines and trees torn from the earth.
More than five lakh people have taken shelter in West Bengal and more than a lakh in Odisha, the Response Force of National Disaster (NRDF) chief, said today at a press conference. The cyclone arrived at Calcutta, on this night.
The evacuation is complicated by the need to follow the precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The cyclone is happening mainly in the North and South 24 Parganas, Midnapore, Hooghly, and Kolkata. Its shape is like a ring around the eye of the storm with strong winds circulating counterclockwise around the eye.
As the fiercest cyclones in decades shook Bengal and Orissa, Bangladesh reported its first death due to Amphan.
The cyclone Amphan is only the second “super cyclone” to form over the Bay of Bengal since records began, and the first since 1999.
Odisha was hit by a super cyclone that left nearly 10,000 people dead in 1999.
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