Fishermen sit on a boat in the Bay of Bengal near Gundalaba village, about 100km (62 miles) east from Bhubaneswar. - Reuters pic
BHUBANESWAR (India)(AFP): A "very severe" cyclone gathered pace as it bore down on India's east coast Friday where the military mobilised to help evacuation efforts and panicked locals recalled a devastating storm in 1999.
The air force sent teams to assist local disaster agencies moving people out of the path of Cyclone Phailin, expected to make landfall early on Saturday evening accompanied by a storm surge of up to three metres (10 feet).
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