Cyclone
Yaas, which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm", hit the
states of West Bengal and Orissa - also known as Odisha - on 26 May, as well as
lashing southern Bangladesh. This is the second cyclone to hit the country in a
week, after Cyclone Tauktae killed more than 150 people. It comes as India is
already struggling to deal with its Covid-19 outbreak.
Yaas
lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain as it made landfall in
India, homes and bringing waves that swamped towns. More than one million
people were evacuated in the country as the storm approached.
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team ( AMURT/ AMURTEL) has been doing relief work in the affected areas. AMURT has provided beaten rice, molasses, Milkpowder & biscuits among Yaas cyclone victims at Tusharkhali & Atapur, Sandeshkhali & Dhuchnikhali, Sandeshkhali-2 in North 24 Pargana District. Cooked food was also provided to the cyclone victims at the Kanthi-Digha coastal area of Mednipur. AMURT Volunteers are also engaged in providing food materials and cleaning the roads in Balasore and other Districts Odisha. AMURTEL has also set up mobile medical camps and provided free allopathic and homeopathic medicines to thousands of cyclone victims so far.
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