A woman cooks a meal outdoors after her house was damaged by Cyclone Fani in the Penthakata fishing village of Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Associated Press)NEW DELHI — A rare summer cyclone that tore through parts of South Asia killed at least 34 people in India and 15 in neighboring Bangladesh and smashed thousands of thatched-roof huts, officials said Monday. The evacuation of more than 1 million people from about 15,000 villages and 46 towns in India’s worst-hit Odisha state prevented a much worse death toll from one of the biggest storms in decades. Telephone links were still down Monday in the worst-hit Puri district in Odisha. “Cyclone Fani is one of the rarest of rare summer cyclones to hit Odisha in 43 years.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2019 07:30 UTC