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The Guardian - AU
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Cyclone Biparjoy: more than 100,000 evacuated in India and Pakistan as storm nears

People are evacuated from a village near Jakhau in the Indian state of Gujarat on Wednesday ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy.
People are evacuated from a village near Jakhau in the Indian state of Gujarat on Wednesday ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy. Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in India and Pakistan ahead of the expected landfall on Thursday of a “very severe cyclonic storm”.

Biparjoy, a cyclone whose name means “disaster” in Bengali, is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall on Thursday evening, government weather monitors said.

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