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Cyclone Aila claims 15 lives, thousands stranded

CNewws KOLKATA: Strong winds and heavy rains from Cyclone Aila lashed eastern India and Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least 15 people and stranding Palm trees are whipped below a menacing skyline during a cyclonic storm in Kolkata. By the evening, however, the storm had gradually begun to weaken, G.C. Debnath, an official at the local meteorological office said. Five people were killed in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, where trees were uprooted, tram services stopped and schools closed early, according to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mayor Bikash Bhattacharya. Five others were killed in neighbouring districts, Bhattacharjee said. B K Bandhopadhyaya, an official at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi said that the cyclone had generated winds of about 70 miles (110 kilometres) per hour. Several rivers burst their banks inside the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, home to thousands of people and one the world's largest wild tiger populations, Khalil ...

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