Kolkata: More than 1.59 lakh people were evacuated from low-lying areas in West Bengal's coastal districts till Thursday afternoon and another two-lakh people were likely to be shifted as severe cyclone Dana with wind gusts of up to 120 km per hour was expected to make landfall between Thursday midnight and Friday morning on the east coast.

Cyclone Dana will cross the North Odisha and West Bengal coasts as a 'severe' cyclone during the night of Thursday and Friday.

Over a million people have been evacuated and flights and trains have been suspended as India’s eastern regions and Bangladesh braced for a severe cyclone. Cyclone Dana is expected to hammer the low-lying regions of West Bengal and Odisha,

Storm Dana is forming in the Bay of Bengal, forcing Indian authorities to shut down schools, evacuate hundreds of thousands of people, and cancel train services. Up to one million people are expected to have to leave their homes,