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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Aishwarya KUMAR

The Indian Villagers Who Lost Their Homes To The Sea

Satabhaya is the hardest-hit of several rural idylls along the seafront in India's Odisha, a state that has also been battered in recent decades by tropical cyclones and floods of increasing ferocity (Credit: AFP)

The gentle roar of the ocean lulled Indian mother-of-two Banita Behra to sleep each night, until one day the encroaching tide reached her doorstep.

Behra is among hundreds of people from the disappearing and largely abandoned coastal village of Satabhaya, whose displaced former residents have been officially recognised by the government as climate migrants.

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