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Cyclone Phailin eyes India's east coast

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
As a powerful cyclone was hurtling towards India's east coast yesterday, thou-sands of people were evacuated and the Indian civil administration reached out to the army for help.
Satellite images showed a cloud mass about a third the size of India, although weather officials said the danger zone was far narrower and would only affect coastal part of Orissa state and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state.
The Indian Air Force sent teams to assist local disaster management agencies in shifting people out of the path of cyclone Phailin which is expected to strike today
evening accompanied by a tidal surge of up to three metres (10 feet).
It is "a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 210-220 kilometres an hour", the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said as it upgraded its warnings.
LS Rathore, director general of the IMD, said the cyclone was gaining intensity over the Bay of Bengal and is "very close to a super cyclonic storm," the most powerful form.
"It is definitely not going to fizzle out, it is not going to weaken substantially," he told Indian television channel NDTV.
Orissa's state capital Bhubaneswar has been lashed by a strong wind
and people did shopping to stock up on food, with memories strong of the 1999 storm which killed thousands of people in the state.
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written to the defence ministry appealing for help, saying that "despite preparedness by the state government, the impact of a very severe cyclonic storm requires support of the defence forces."
The air force, fresh from assisting with relief efforts after massive flooding in the Himalayas in June, said two emergency teams would travel to Bhubaneswar while transport planes and helicopters would be kept on standby.
The army and navy
were also preparing to assist.
Authorities said they have raised a "high alert" across 14 out of 30 districts of Orissa and met with local aid groups who have been asked to assist with evacuations from coastal areas.
"We have already deployed our entire disaster mitigation force on pre-storm initiatives," said Pradipta Mohapatra, special relief commissioner for the state.
The 1999 supercyclone had wrought extensive death and devastation in Orissa. A government report on the disaster published in 2009 put the human death toll at 8,243, while 445,000 livestock perished.