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However his joy was short-lived.
On Thursday morning, along with his four children and other half, Mondal was scrambling outside a relief camp in the district for two loafs of bread and a tarpaulin sheet to spend the nights at a cyclone shelter, as his one-storey mud home was cleaned away by incredibly extreme cyclonic storm “Amphan” on Wednesday night.
The story is the same for hundreds of migrant labourers in South 24 Parganas who lost their tasks due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and are left with nothing due to the monstrous cyclone now.