A view of the destruction caused by Cyclone Fani, in Puri, on May 4, 2019. (PTI Photo)Many in cyclone-ravaged Puri struggled without water or food even on Sunday, and found themselves short of cash because the ATMs were defunct and mobile payments hamstrung by a disrupted telecommunications system. “We haven’t eaten a morsel of food since the cyclone struck on Friday morning,” said Somnath Sahu, a resident of Malatipatpur on Puri’s outskirts. (PTI)In Puri, hotel staff are struggling to get drinking water even for themselves. “Even though we have generators to work the water pumps, we haven’t the petrol or kerosene to operate them,” Puri Hotel Owners’ Association president Ramkrushna Das Mohapatra said.

Source: The Telegraph May 05, 2019 19:52 UTC