Cyclone Hudhud hammers India's east coast; at least 3 dead
Visakhapatnam
CYCLONE Hudhud blasted India's eastern seaboard on Oct 12 with gusts of up to 195km an hour, uprooting trees, damaging buildings and killing at least three people despite a major evacuation effort.
The port city of Visakhapatnam, home to two million people and a major naval base, was hammered as the cyclone made landfall, unleashing the huge destructive force it had sucked up from the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal. Upended trees and wreckage were str…
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