A bird’s eye view of the destruction caused by Cyclone Fani, taken during aeriel surveillance by the coast guard's Dornier aircraft, shows a bus terminus near Puri. PTICyclone Fani has uprooted trees and loosened sculptures at the Jagannath Temple, forcing the shrine to close indefinitely for repairs, and ransacked seaside hotels, stripping off doors and air-conditioners and spitting them out onto the streets. "Puri certainly doesn't look the happy place it used to be," said the Puri Hotel Owners' Association president, Ramkrushna Das Mohapatra. Almost all the trees on the Jagannath Temple premises, ple, have suffered the cyincluding the famous "Kalpa- clone's wrath. PTI quoted Patnaik: "In Puri and parts of Khurda, we have the challenge of setting up the entire electrification afresh.

Source: The Telegraph May 05, 2019 01:41 UTC