| Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruits, water and | | | | department, said Devesh Chandra Thakur, Bihar state's |
| tarpaulins Thursday to the victims of a ferocious | | | | minister for disaster management. "Most people were |
| cyclone that killed at least 119 people in northeastern | | | | sleeping when the cyclone struck. They ran out of their |
| India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts. | | | | homes into the open," said M. B. Shajuruddin, a |
| Rescuers cleared hundreds of uprooted trees and | | | | 30-year-old teacher in Chhota Suhar, a village in West |
| electricity poles blocking roads to the devastated | | | | Bengal. The storm destroyed most the village's 500 |
| areas in Bihar state, said Sharwan Kumar, a state | | | | tin-roofed huts, and splintered trees. "We have so far |
| administrator. Telephone services also were restored | | | | received no government help ... People are surviving on |
| in most of the region after a 30-hour interruption. | | | | whatever they are left with," he said. Vyasji said |
| Rescuers found 10 bodies on Thursday in the district | | | | rescuers found 23 bodies overnight from northeastern |
| of Purnea, raising the overall death toll in Bihar state to | | | | Bihar districts of Araria, Kishenganj and Purnea. |
| 80, Kumar told The Associated Press. Police and | | | | Authorities handed tarpaulin sheets to the cyclone |
| rescue teams have recovered another 39 bodies in | | | | victims to set up temporary shelters in the region and |
| the worst-hit villages in West Bengal state — | | | | distributed food and water, Vyasji said. Namita Biswas, |
| Hematabad, Raiganj and Kiran Dighi — since | | | | 51, a housewife in West Bengal, said told AP by phone |
| Wednesday, said Ramanuj Chakraborty, a senior local | | | | she and her husband were sleeping in their hut when it |
| official. Packing winds of more than 100 mph (160 kph), | | | | was crushed by a tree that broke from the impact of |
| the cyclone struck close to midnight Tuesday. | | | | the cyclone. Her husband was killed. The cyclone |
| Hundreds of people were injured and thousands left | | | | demolished nearly 50,000 mud huts in West Bengal |
| homeless. They were nike air max caught unaware as | | | | and thousands more in Bihar, officials said. |
| there was no cyclone warning from the weather | | | | |