Cyclone Dana spares Odisha, Bengal of major damage, brings heavy rains

Cyclone Dana spared Odisha and West Bengal of immoderate terrible harm to infrastructure portion formation and obstruction operations resumed connected Friday aft the cyclonic tempest completed landfall, triggering dense rains and uprooting of trees and electrical poles.

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi asserted that nary fatality study has been received truthful acold and the authorities achieved its 'zero casualty mission', portion West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said 1 idiosyncratic died owed to the earthy calamity.

The terrible cyclonic tempest Dana completed its landfall astir 8.30 americium connected Friday and the strategy took astatine slightest 8 and fractional hours to participate the landmass, the IMD said.

The landfall of 'Dana' started astir 12.05 americium connected Friday betwixt Bhitarkanika successful Kendrapara and Dhamra successful Bhadrak territory of Odisha with upwind speeds of astir 110 kmph.

Majhi, who reviewed the cyclone concern successful Bhubaneswar this morning, announced that the authorities has achieved its "zero casualty mission" arsenic determination has been "no study regarding immoderate nonaccomplishment of quality beingness oregon wounded successful the terrible cyclonic storm".

The main curate said each the roads blocked by uprooted trees would beryllium cleared during the time arsenic the rescue squad unit had already started moving arsenic soon arsenic the strength of upwind reduced connected Thursday night.

Majhi said galore electrical installations similar poles and transformers were damaged and were being repaired.

"By 6 p.m. connected Friday, energy volition beryllium restored successful each places including the worst-hit Kendrapara, Balasore and Bhadrak district," helium said.

The West Bengal CM connected Friday said that 1 idiosyncratic died successful the authorities successful cyclone Dana adjacent arsenic the medication evacuated astir 2.16 lakh radical from the low-lying areas.

Banerjee, who held a reappraisal gathering astatine the authorities secretariat Nabanna aft spending the nighttime determination to show the situation, directed the officials to guarantee that alleviation materials scope each those affected by the cyclone.

"Only 1 idiosyncratic died successful this earthy disaster. The antheral died astatine his residence portion conducting immoderate cable-related work. It is rather unfortunate. The postmortem introspection volition springiness america a wide picture. If required we (state government) volition assistance the family," Banerjee said.

Heavy rains packed with gusty winds lashed parts of confederate West Bengal.

In assorted parts of Mandarmani successful Purba Medinipur and Gosaba successful South 24 Parganas district, waterlogging has been reported, compounding the misery of the affected residents.

The afloat grade of the harm is inactive being assessed, but archetypal reports suggested that the tempest brought dense rains, which continued till Friday, causing inundation successful low-lying areas.

Thirteen teams from the state's catastrophe absorption unit and 14 battalions from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) person been deployed successful the Bengal coastal regions, the officials said.

Flight operations resumed astatine Kolkata airdrome successful West Bengal from 8 americium connected Friday aft being suspended since Thursday evening successful presumption of the cyclonic storm.

Train services connected the southbound conception of the Sealdah Division nether the Eastern Railway besides restarted astatine 10 americium aft scheduled cancellations owed to the cyclone, they said.

Flight and bid services besides resumed successful Bhubaneswar connected Friday greeting adjacent though cyclone Dana tore done the Odisha seashore since midnight.

Biju Patnaik International Airport present restarted its cognition with the archetypal formation landing astir 9 am, Majhi told reporters.

The East Coast Railway (ECoR), successful a statement, said trains started moving arsenic per schedule, barring those cancelled earlier successful its jurisdiction.

The ECoR cancelled astir 203 trains arsenic a precautionary measurement for the cyclone Dana.
Trains coming from Visakhapatnam, Howrah and Kharagpur to Bhubaneswar person started running, an ECoR authoritative said.

A bid connected the Kharagpur-Visakhapatnam way would get astatine Bhadrak Station astatine 2 pm, the ECoR said.

The railway authorities informed that trains scheduled to originate from Bhubaneswar and Puri would commence their travel aft noon connected Friday, but the notified cancelled trains.

Large parts of Kolkata faced terrible waterlogging during the greeting hours of Friday arsenic cyclone Dana brought torrential rainfall successful its aftermath, inundating areas crossed the city.

According to the determination Met bureau successful Alipore, Kolkata received implicit 100 mm of rainfall till 11.30 americium connected Friday implicit the erstwhile 24 hours.

Knee-deep h2o astatine respective thoroughfares successful southbound and cardinal parts of the metropolis hampered postulation question successful Bhawanipur, New Market, Hazra, Dharmatala, and Behala areas.

Reports of waterlogging were besides received from Thanthania Kalibari, Mahatma Gandhi Road, VIP Road, Park Circus, Dum Dum and parts of New Town successful the bluish and eastbound parts of the city.

Significant flooding was besides seen wrong the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) office successful Esplanade area, portion patients, unit and wellness workers were recovered wading done ankle-deep h2o astatine SSKM Hospital, 1 of the state's superior referral hospitals, causing large inconvenience to visitors and triggering apprehensions of dispersed of water-borne infections.

Rainwater accumulation was besides noticed astatine the OPD helping of the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, different state-run tertiary healthcare installation successful the city.