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Cyclone Aila
Cyclone Aila that originated over the Bay of Bengal on May 25, 2009
caused havoc in many parts of West Bengal, In West Bengal,
at least 5.1 million people were displaced, with more than one million
people stranded in the Sundarban islands alone, most of them without
any food or water, officials said.
The areas and districts affected by the cyclone in West Bengal
include East Midnapore, Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan, South 24 Parganas
and Kolkata.[ In the West Bengal state, more than 100,000 people were
left homeless as a result of Aila |
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