Nearly 1000 villages without electricity after cyclone landfall

Around 1,000 villages along India’s Kutch-Saurashtra region are without electricity in the aftermath of cyclone Biparjoy, officials said.

The heavy rain and storms caused by the cyclone damaged 5,120 electricity poles, according to reports.

Initially, the “very severe cyclonic storm” brewing in the Arabian Sea had caused a power outage in 4,600 villages in the region’s coastal districts.

By this noon local time power supply was restored in 3,580 villages.