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Impact

The worst affected areas were in the Krishna River delta region. The island of Diviseema, which was hit by a six meter high storm surge experienced a loss of life running into the thousands.Hundreds of bodies were floating in the swirling waters and bodies bloated beyond recognition were consigned to mass pyres.Landslides ripped off the railway lines in the Waltair-Kirandal route. About 1 hundred people who had left their homes to seek shelter in a church in Bapatla village were killed when the building collapsed.Fields of paddy and cash crops were submerged by the tidal waves. Thirteen sailing vessels, including some foreign ones, went missing in the storm.

About 100 villages were marooned or washed away by the cyclonic storms and the ensuing floods and a total of 10,841 killed or missing, and 3.4 million rendered homeless.