Swamped: Vehicles moving through a waterlogged street in Kolkata, India, as rain continues after Cyclone Remal made landfall near the Bangladesh-India border. — AP
A cyclone flooded coastal villages, blew away thatched roofs and left hundreds of thousands of people without power in southern Bangladesh and eastern India. At least seven deaths were reported.
Dozens of Bangladeshi villages were flooded after flood protection embankments either washed away or were damaged by the storm surge, TV stations reported. Nearly 800,000 people had been evacuated from vulnerable areas in Bangladesh on Sunday.
