Cyclone Fani: CM Naveen Patnaik praises rescue efforts, says record 12 lakh people evacuated in 24 hours

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The cyclone, which developed over the Bay of Bengal, has weakened further as it entered Bangladesh. As per forecast, there will be moderate to light rainfall, particularly in the districts adjacent to Bangladesh, but the weather condition in and around the city will normalise through the course of the day, Deputy Director General of the Regional Meteorological Centre here, Sanjib Bandyopadhyay told PTI.

Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, about 12 lakh people living in the most vulnerable districts in the country had been moved to some 4,000 shelters. The storm had damaged more than 500 houses. It destroyed several houses in the Noakhali district, where a two-year-old child and a 12-year-old girl were killed, and about 30 people were injured, Reuters reported.

A tree seen uprooted as Cyclone Fani makes landfall, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo)

Weather officials said there is no threat to West Bengal over developments as the very severe cyclonic storm had weakened into a severe cyclonic storm over Odisha coast before entering West Bengal.

The West Bengal government had taken precautionary measures Friday in East and West Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas districts, besides Howrah, Hooghly, Jhargram, Kolkata and the Sundarbans, in wake of the cyclonic storm.