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India on red alert as "super cyclone" nears east coast
2013-10-12 07:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing more than 400,000 people to flee to storm shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a wide swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets. Filling most of the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Phailin was about 200 km (124 miles) offshore by noon on Saturday, satellite images showed, and was expected to hit land by nightfall. It was on the verge of becoming a "super cyclone", and was expected...
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