Indıa Cyclone
INDIA CYCLONEEPA02118572 INDİAN VİLLAGERS COLLECT PLASTİC SHEETS FOR THEİR MAKESHİFT SHELTER FROM A GOVERNMENT OFFİCE AFTER A CYCLONE HİT AT KORNOJOHO
epa02118572 Indian villagers collect plastic sheets for their makeshift shelter from a Government office after a cyclone hit at Kornojohora village of Uttar Dinajpur district of Bengal, some 175 km South of Siliguri, India, 15 April 2010. Rescuerelief teams fanned out to remote areas as thousands of homeless awaited aid 15 April after a storm ravaged parts of India's eastern states of Bihar, West BengalAssam, leaving 130 people dead.The storm, packing winds of up to 125 kilometres per hour, destroyed thousands of houses, uprooted treessnapped powercommunication lines beginning late 13 April. More than 200 people were injuredmany were still believed to be trapped in the debris of collapsed homes, officials said. More than 100,000 houses, many of them thatched homes made of mudbamboo or those having tinasbestos roofs, were destroyed, the Times of India newspaper reported. EPA/STR
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