Powerful category 3 Cyclone Amphan batters India and Bangladesh coastline sending over 2.6 million people fleeing to shelters
Sobrato Das, a fisherman on Mousuni Island in India, close to the Sunderbans, described the shelters as crowded and said “very few people are wearing masks.”
Some cyclone shelters in West Bengal were being used to quarantine virus patients and migrant workers returning to their homes. The state government asked for trains transporting migrants to be suspended, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. Some schools were turned into shelters, news reports said.In the seaside resort of Digha, many people feared going to the shelters, fisherman Debasis Shyamal said.
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