(ET)
Cyclone ‘Fani’, expected to hit the coasts of Odisha tomorrow, has intensified into an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’ with wind speed likely to hit 200 kmph at the time of landfall. No flight will depart or arrive at Kolkata airport between 9.30 pm of May 3 and 6 pm on May 4 due to cyclone Fani, DGCA has said.
The Central and the state government have put the disaster relief machinery including the NDRF, SDRF and Armed forces on high alert. About 800,000 people have evacuated from low-lying areas of 14 districts in Odisha. The cyclone is currently around 400 km off the Odisha coast. As many as 223 trains along the Odisha coastline in the Kolkata-Chennai route have been cancelled in view of cyclone Fani which is likely to hit the eastern state by May 3, Railways said.
