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Added on the 15/06/2023 14:37:25 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Scene from the beach town of Mandvi around 100 kilometres southeast of Jakhau Port where Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall. IMAGES
Cyclone Biparjoy slams into the Indian beach town of Mandvi, with strong winds and rain rocking street signs and shaking palm trees. Gusts of wind and sheets of rain reduced visibility with a dull grey mist as almost all stores were closed. Forecasters had warned that Biparjoy was likely to devastate homes and tear down power lines, prompting evacuations. IMAGES
Strong winds billow across fields in Midnapore in the Indian state of West Bengal, as Cyclone Amphan - the Bay of Bengal's fiercest cyclone in decades - bears down on India and Bangladesh. IMAGES
Hurricane Norma strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it approaches a tourist hotspot on Mexico's Pacific coast. The hurricane -- which at one point was a Category 4 out of five on the Saffir-Simpson scale -- is now packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour (120 miles per hour), the US National Hurricane Center says in its latest update. IMAGES
Crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday, hours before the landfall. Biparjoy, a cyclone whose name means "disaster" in Bengali, is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall as a "very severe cyclonic storm" on Thursday evening. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).