3 individuals were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday, while a baby died in Bhadrak district of Odisha and a woman drowned in Kendrapara.
Thousands of kutcha homes in the coastal parts of West Bengal were damaged. Embankments were breached in the low-level locations since of the enormous storm surge. Preliminary reports stated someone each passed away in Minakha and Basirhat of North 24 Parganas district and a third in Howrah.
According to the Regional Meteorological Centre at Alipore in Kolkata, the landfall started at 2.30 p.m. and continued till 7 p.m. The landfall was reported near Sagar Island of the Sunderbans between Digha in Purba Medinipur and Hatia in Bangladesh.
Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, a senior official at the Alipore centre, stated wind speeds of 150-160 km per hour were tape-recorded in the coastal locations after the cyclone made a landfall. In Kolkata, wind speeds of 112 km per hour were tape-recorded.
Heavy rains was reported across all districts of south Bengal. The extremely cyclone was one of the fiercest the State has witnessed over the last few years– more effective than Bulbul (2019) and Aila (2009).
” The trajectory of Amphan is complying with what we have been forecasting,” M. Mohapatra, Director-General of the India Meteorological Department, said at a press briefing in New Delhi.
In images: Cyclone Amphan makes landfall
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