BHUBANESWAR, India — A severe cyclonic storm pounded India's eastern coast on Friday (Oct 25), uprooting trees, snapping power lines and inundating some areas, authorities said, adding that no deaths or injuries were reported.
Fishermen attempt to bring their boat back to shore during high tide before Cyclone Dana makes landfall in the eastern state of Odisha, India.BHUBANESWAR, India — A severe cyclonic storm pounded India's eastern coast on Friday , uprooting trees, snapping power lines and inundating some areas, authorities said, adding that no deaths or injuries were reported.
Odisha had closed schools, suspended flights to and from its capital city of Bhubaneswar until Friday morning, and evacuated more than half a million people in anticipation of the storm. Heavy rainfall also lashed parts of the neighbouring state of West Bengal and, accompanied by a surge in the sea water, left low lying areas inundated, damaging the standing paddy crop that was almost ready for harvest in some fields.
Flight operations resumed on Friday morning at the airports in Bhubaneswar and the West Bengal capital Kolkata, where too they were suspended since Thursday evening.
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