Thousands evacuated as tropical storm heads to India
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, schools closed, and trains and flights cancelled as a severe tropical storm approached eastern India on Thursday. Tropical storm Dana is inching across the Bay of Bengal towards the eastern coast of India and is expected to make landfall late on Thursday or early on Friday. Niger’s […]
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, schools closed, and trains and flights cancelled as a severe tropical storm approached eastern India on Thursday.
Tropical storm Dana is inching across the Bay of Bengal towards the eastern coast of India and is expected to make landfall late on Thursday or early on Friday.
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This is according to the Indian Meteorological Department.
It said the cyclonic storm is expected to bring winds of 100-110 kilometres per hour.