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Cyclone Biparjoy weakens, thousands leave relief camps in India

A man carries a child from a truck during an evacuation before the arrival of Cyclone Biparjoy in Jakhau in the western state of Gujarat, India [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]

More than 100,000 people who had sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened, the authorities said.

In the coastal village of Jakhau, where the cyclone made landfall in India’s Gujarat state on Thursday, more than 130 people had shifted back to their homes from a government-run shelter by midday Saturday.

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