Photos: Cyclone Bulbul rips through Bengal and Odisha

Cyclone Bulbul made a landfall with wind speed of up to 125 km per hour on Saturday night, claimed ten

Updated on Nov 11, 2019 05:25 PM IST 7 Photos

A view of destruction in the aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul, at Amarabati village, in Bakkhali, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Cyclone Bulbul, which made landfall with a wind speed of up to 125 km per hour on Saturday night, claimed ten lives in West Bengal and Odisha before losing steam and proceeding towards Bangladesh. It left a trail of destruction and damaged homes and crops across nine districts of southern Bengal and coastal Odisha. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

The cyclone affected four lakh people in the two states, the officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who spent the night at a special control room set up to monitor the cyclone, on Sunday morning and assured her assistance from the Centre. West Bengal chief secretary Rajiva Sinha held a video conference with cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba to coordinate the relief work. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

Women carry their belongings from a house submerged in water, at Amarabati village. Union home minister Amit Shah said that the Centre was supporting the cyclone-hit states. He tweeted that 10 teams of National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) were in West Bengal and six in Odisha to assist the state governments in carrying out relief measures. He added that additional 18 NDRF teams were on standby. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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A police personnel makes an announcement on a loudspeaker for Cyclone Bulbul, at Harwood point jetty, South 24 Parganas. The India Meteorological Department said that Bulbul took around four hours to cover the Sunderbans spread across North 24 Parganas districts. In all, eight people have lost their lives in the state. “Initial reports say 3,500 houses have been damaged,” said North 24 Parganas district magistrate Chaitali Chakraborti. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

People carry tarpaulin for residents of Gangasagar Island distributed by the state government in the aftermath of cyclone Bulbul. Many houses collapsed in Ramnagar, Nandigram, Khejuri and Haldia and 22,000 people were shifted to rescue centres. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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