7 Die as Cyclone Barrels Towards Western India, Pakistan

Laxmi Kumar pushes a cradle carrying her three year old son Arvind at a temporary shelter for people evacuated from Kandla port, before the arrival of cyclone Biparjoy, in Gandhidham, in the western state of Gujarat, India, on June 13, 2023. Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters

AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI—Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected to make landfall.

Classified as a very severe cyclonic storm, Biparjoy is expected to land around Thursday evening between Mandvi in India’s Gujarat Province and Karachi in southern Pakistan.