Cyclonic storm Fani made landfall in Odisha’s Puri district wreaking havoc on Friday. The government has evacuated more than a million people from districts affected by India’s strongest summertime cyclone in the last 43 years and asked people to remain indoors. “More than one million people have been evacuated from vulnerable districts in the last 24 hours in Odisha. The Odisha government has said that 10,000 villages and 52 towns in nine districts will be affected due to Cyclone Fani. Watch | Cyclone Fani: Severe storm strikes Odisha, over 1 million evacuatedThe storm is likely to impact Odisha’s coastal districts Ganjam, Gajapati, Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Balasore.

Source: Hindustan Times May 03, 2019 03:25 UTC