In India the storm damaged a hospital in Bhubaneswar while television channels showed pictures of uprooted trees and broken houses
— A category 4 storm with strong wind and heavy rain caused havoc in India’s eastern parts on Friday, prompting authorities in the country and neighbouring Bangladesh to evacuate more than 3.5 million people to shelters.
Odisha, home to several aluminum units, power plants, coal mines and an oil refinery, is battered by cyclonic storms every year. The state was hit by a super cyclone in 1999 with wind speeds that were estimated to have reached a maximum 270 kilometres an hour, leaving almost 10,000 people dead. Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has suspended its offshore exploration in the region and has towed five of its six drilling rigs in the Bay of Bengal to the coast as a precautionary measure. It has evacuated almost 500 people working at its fields. State-run National Aluminium Co. is reviewing its mining operations and may shut its refinery in the event of heavy gusts.
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