As Cyclone Biparjoy barreled into Gujarat, bringing deadly winds and downpours, thousands of residents in coastal Saurashtra and Kutch will be facing a bleak week ahead. Landfall is anticipated on June 15 close to the fishing port of Jakhau.
As the area started to experience the consequences of the approaching cyclone, with strong winds uprooting trees, three individuals, including two children, died. Two cousins, ages four and six, were killed when a wall collapsed on them in Bhuj town, and a woman riding pillion with her husband was killed when a large tree fell on their motorbike in Rajkot’s Jasdan taluka.
In Kutch and Dwarka, the two districts where the storm is anticipated to have the most impact, more than 12,000 individuals have been identified for evacuation. The procedure should be finished by Tuesday night.
Trees were falling and walls collapsing all over the Kutch and Devbhumi Dwarka districts as well as along the Gujarat coast as fierce winds and torrential rains started to blow in the area on Sunday, days before cyclone Biparjoy was predicted to make landfall on Thursday.
A couple suffered significant injuries when a tree fell on their bike on the Una-Veraval section of the coastal route, in addition to the three fatalities that were reported in the area.
Massive waves that crashed ashore in the districts of Amreli, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Kutch, Porbandar, Gir-Somnath, were a result of the Arabian Sea being unusually choppy. While various areas of Veraval town were covered in knee-deep water as a result of the downpours, a wall of the Indureshwar Mahadev temple in Porbandar crumbled amid the continual slamming of waves.
After waves breached the defence wall in the Saiyed Rajpara village near Una, some coastal homes in the Gir-Somnath area were damaged. The 100 residents of these homes were relocated.
Beginning on Sunday, when a high-tension wire fell on five automobiles in the Botad neighbourhood, the cyclone’s consequences could be seen.
Monday brought to light about the occurrence. Three boats capsized in Mul Dwarka close to Kodinar, while heavy rainfall was reported from the talukas of Amreli’s Khambha, Jafrabad, Rajula, and Savarkundla.
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