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Mumbai (India), May 17 (EFE / EPA) .- India has evacuated more than 135,000 people on the western coast of the country before the arrival of the "extremely severe" cyclone Tauktae, which will make its landfall this Monday with winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour while the country registers the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases in the world.FOOTAGE OF THE DESTRUCTION GENERATED BY THE CYCLONE IN MUMBAI, INDIA.
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