Smooth evacuation limit cyclone Fani toll

It was not that the areas in the path of ‘Fani’ escaped unscathed. There was extensive damage to kuccha houses in Puri, 160 persons were admitted to hospital for treatment. However, IMD's new regional hurricane model,helped avert a higher toll and showed how accuracy in tracking and forecasting landfall has progressed since the 1999.

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