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A year after Cyclone Phailin made landfall in India’s Odisha state and took 44 lives, millions in the area are bracing for the impact of another massive threat. Tropical Cyclone Hudhud picked up strength as the storm churned over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday and could make landfall as the equivalent of a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Sunday local time, according to weather.com meteorologists.
The storm has already killed at least one person: On Saturday, a nine-year-old girl was killed and an 11-year-old boy was reported missing after a boat evacuating people from a seaside village capsized, the Times of India reports. The boat was carrying 25 people from the Magarakanda village, mostly women and children.
As Hudhud continues its west-northwest course, the Indian Meteorological Department has issued a cyclone alert for the coastal states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, both on the eastern coast of India. The storm was expected to make landfall near Visakhapatnam around noon local time on Sunday. The Indian Meteorological Department has classified the storm as 'very severe,' according to the BBC. The Indian Meteorological Department was predicting a five-to-ten-foot storm surge in low-lying areas in Andhra Pradesh, according to the latest reports.
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