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The cyclonic storm, Tauktae leaves behind a trail of destruction in Gujarat. The cyclone with severe intense speed landfall on Gujarat coastal areas but slowly the worst got over. Now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Gujarat and Diu on May 19 to take stock of the situation there.
PM Modi will conduct an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad, and Mahuva. The PM will start from Delhi at 9.30am, news agency ANI reported. He will land in Gujarat's Bhavnagar and proceed for an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad and Mahuva. He will also hold a review meeting in Ahmedabad later, as the news agency ANI reports. Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in Gujarat at around 8.30 pm on Monday. Till now, the weather department says that it is the biggest storm to hit Gujarat in decades with wind speed of 155-165 kilometres per hour, gusting to 190 km/hour. While Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani claimed over 16000 houses were damaged, and more than 40000 trees and over 1000 poles uprooted in the storm. At least seven people were reportedly killed in Gujarat as the storm battered parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction in its wake uprooting electric poles and trees, and damaging several houses and roads, before weakening, officials said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the state reported 6,447 cases of deadly coronavirus. The recovery number states 9,557 on Tuesday, while the day also saw 67 deaths from the infection, an official said. The state’s caseload in total stands at 766201, including 9269 deaths.
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