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Cyclone Biparjoy tore down power poles and uprooted trees Friday after pummelling the Indian coastline, but the storm was weaker than feared and there were only two confirmed deaths.
More than 180,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat and Pakistan’s neighboring Sindh province fled the path of Biparjoy — which means “disaster” in Bengali — before it made landfall on Thursday evening.
The storm packed sustained winds of up to 125 kilometers (78 miles) per hour as it struck — but weakened overnight, with Indian forecasters expecting it to calm into a moderate low-pressure system by late Friday.
