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Strongest Cyclone In Over A Decade Slams Into India

May 20, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

Police officers carry a disabled man to a safer place following his evacuation from a slum area before Cyclone Amphan makes its landfall in Kolkata on May 20, 2020

A powerful cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Wednesday with heavy rain, wind and waves as millions of people were evacuated from there in an operation complicated by the campaign against the novel coronavirus.

Cyclone Amphan had begun moving inland, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin at 3 p.m. (0930 GMT), after brewing for days in the Bay of Bengal to become one of the strongest storms to hit the region in about a decade.

Officials in India’s Odisha and West Bengal states said powerful winds had torn off roofs, uprooted trees and bent electricity poles, hitting power supplies in some areas.

A Home Ministry official said authorities in West Bengal and Odisha had struggled to house thousands of evacuees as shelters were being used as coronavirus quarantine centres.

Extra shelters were being prepared in markets and government buildings with allowances made for social distancing, while masks were being distributed to villagers.

Police in West Bengal said some people were unwilling to go to the shelters because they were afraid of being infected by the coronavirus and many were refusing to leave their livestock.

“We have literally had to force people out of their homes, make them wear masks and put them in government buildings,” said a senior police official in West Bengal’s capital, Kolkata.

Monoranjan, a resident of Choto Mollakhali island in the Sunderbans area of the Ganges river delta, which is expected to bear the brunt of the storm, said the storm could destroy rice stocks.

“We’re just praying for this night to be over,” he said.

Tags: bay of bengal, coronavirus, coronavirus quarantine centres, Cyclone Amphan, IMD, India Meteorological Department, Kolkata, Pratirodh, social distancing, Sunderbans, West Bengal

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