A woman is seen inside her damaged house after cyclone Bulbul hit the area in Khulna, Bangladesh, November 10, 2019. “It has turned into a deep depression, causing heavy rainfall,” Bangladesh weather bureau deputy chief Ayesha Khatun said. “We spent the night with another 400 people,” said Ambia Begum, who arrived at a shelter in the port town of Mongla late on Saturday along with her family. In Odisha, crops in coastal regions were extensively damaged by the cyclone. REUTERS/Kazi Fazle Rabby. An Italian farmer could not believe his eyes when one of his dogs gave birth to a green-furred puppy. But disaster preparedness programs in recent decades have upgraded the country’s capacity to deal with natural disasters, resulting in fewer casualties. As the day progressed, volunteers used loudspeakers to ask people to move to shelters in Chittagong and other regions, according to the disaster management ministry. Twelve reported dead in India and eight in Bangladesh as storm uproots trees and floods croplands. The cyclone packed winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) when it hit late on Saturday, forcing the closure of ports and airports in both countries. Authorities suspended all activities in the country’s main seaports, including in Chittagong, which handles almost 80% of Bangladesh’s exports and imports. Hundreds of thousands evacuate as cyclone Bulbul approaches Bangladesh. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. With a strong cyclone approaching Bangladesh late Saturday night, authorities used more than 50,000 volunteers and officials to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people to shelters across the low-lying delta nation’s vast coastal region. The cyclone was moving over the Bay of Bengal and was initially expected to hit the country’s coast at around midnight. (ANI Photo) KOLKATA: Cyclone 'Bulbul', which barrelled through the coastal districts of West Bengal before hurtling towards Bangladesh, claimed at least 10 lives and affected at least 2.73 lakh families in different parts of the state, official reports said on Sunday. The storm is also expected to impact parts of northeastern India, where precautions were also being taken. Indians walk in the rain in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. Two others died in nearby Odisha state, PTI reported. “The storm has left a trail of destruction as it’s crossed the coastline of West Bengal,” the state’s urban development minister Firhad Hakim said. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. A woman clears debris from her home damaged by Cyclone Bulbul in Bakkhali, West Bengal. Authorities in nearby Bangladesh put more than 50,000 volunteers on standby and readied about 5000 shelters as a strong cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is expected to hit the low-lying nation's vast southwestern and southern coast on Saturday evening. Cyclone Bulbul, which killed scores of people, hit West Bengal in November 2019. The mangroves shielded the coast from the storm’s full impact, Khatun said. While the frequency and intensity of the storms have increased, partly due to climate change, the death tolls have come down because of faster evacuations and the building of thousands of coastal shelters. Some low-lying parts of the district were flooded, disaster management minister Enamur Rahman said. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products: All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Troops were sent to coastal districts while tens of thousands of volunteers went door-to-door and used loudspeakers to urge people to evacuate their villages.

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