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West Bengal and Odisha evacuated more than two million people as a powerful cyclonic storm, Yaas, hit the east coast on Wednesday, causing extensive damage at a time when India is battling the world’s worst outbreak of Covid-19. Earlier classified as a “very severe cyclonic” storm, Yaas weakened into a “severe cyclonic storm” by afternoon after pounding the beach towns in north Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal with wind speeds of 130-145 kmph. Yaas hit the coast north of Dhamra in Odisha s Bhadrak district, 50 km south of Balasore district, around 9 am. The landfall process was over around 1.30 pm. Cyclone Yaas destroyed more than 300,000 houses in West Bengal and affected 10 million people, the state’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. River embankments were breached, damaging crops and fisheries and livestock farms, she added. The state evacuated about 1.5 million people to safer areas. Neighbouring Odisha moved more than 500,000 people to relief centres where a

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