#ganjam-floods

One day of rain, a year's average: a thousand villages under water and helicopters on the supply run

Cyclone Arnab has flooded more than 1,000 villages across Odisha's Ganjam and Gajapati districts, with about 50,000 people severely affected in Ganjam. The state has moved 59,028 people to safety and deployed 313 rescue teams. Around 300 metres of National Highway 326 has been washed away and 36 trains cancelled.