Bangladesh on Sunday sounded the storm alert to local cautionary signal No. 4, as cyclone Amphan moved further to the country’s north-west.
The cyclonic storm has intensified gradually and is moving towards the bay of West Odisha and West Bengal in India, bdnews24 quoted meteorologists as saying.
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With the present speed, the storm is expected to hit the coast in two days, Monwar Hossain, a weatherman at Bangladesh Meteorological Department, said on Sunday.
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm at around 9 p.m. on Saturday.
The cyclone moved north-westwards at a speed of 6 km per hour and was centred over the southeast bay at 6 a.m. on Sunday.
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