Tens of thousands evacuated as cyclone menaces India and Pakistan

AFP :
More than 40,000 people have been evacuated across India and Pakistan as a cyclone approaches their coast, officials said on Tuesday, with gales of up to 150 kilometers per hour predicted.
The cyclone named Biparjoy, meaning “disaster” in Bengali is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is forecast to make landfall as a “very severe cyclonic storm,” government weather monitors warned.
In Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province, officials said at least 20,000 people had been evacuated from the storm’s path, while across the border in India’s Gujarat state, authorities said they had also helped a similar number to move.

India’s Meteorological Department said the storm would hit near the Indian port of Jakhau on Thursday evening with winds surging up to 150 kilometers per hour.
“Over 20,000 people have been evacuated,” said C.C. Patel, the official in charge of relief operations in Gujarat state, adding that more people would be moved throughout on Tuesday.