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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ajit Solanki

Thousands in western India relief camps begin returning home as Cyclone Biparjoy recedes

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Over 100,000 people who had sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened and headed toward Pakistan, officials said Saturday.

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

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