Cyclone Hits Bangladesh After Battering India, Mass Evacuations Save Lives

Cyclone Hits Bangladesh After Battering India, Mass Evacuations Save Lives
Cyclone Hits Bangladesh After Battering India, Mass Evacuations Save Lives
Motorcycles lie on a street in Puri district after Cyclone Fani hit the coastal eastern state of Odisha, India, on May 3, 2019. AP Photo
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DHAKA/BHUBANESWAR, India—The strongest cyclone to hit India in five years killed at least 15 people in eastern Odisha state, before swinging north-eastwards into Bangladesh on Saturday were four more people died although more than a million had been moved to safety.

After it made landfall early on Friday, tropical cyclone Fani had lost some of its power and was downgraded to a ‘Deep Depression’ by the Indian Meteorological Department as the storm moved inland over Bangladesh.