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M'rashtra cyclone kills 6, Raigad bears the brunt
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M'rashtra cyclone kills 6, Raigad bears the brunt
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Mumbai, June 4 (TIWN) The trail of devastation left by cyclone Nisarga - which claimed 6 lives - was spread across nearly one-third of Maharashtra with Raigad bearing the brunt of its fury, officials said here on Thursday.

In Raigad, an estimated few lakh homes have been damaged, while around 13,000 ‘kutcha' houses destroyed, around 100,000 trees uprooted, thousands of electric poles, 14 electric substations and 1,962 transformers were razed, 500 mobile towers have fallen, 10 fishing boats damaged, over 5,033 hectares of farmland besides 12 acres of fish farms have been destroyed.

Various district Collectors and Divisional Commissioners provided the details of the Nisarga havoc to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray this afternoon.

Relief & Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar informed that around 13 to 14 districts - or more than one-third of Maharashtra's 36 districts - have been affected by Nisarga and he would go on a tour from Saturday for a spot assessment of the damages.

Nearly 76,200 people from low-lying or risk-prone areas were shifted to safer locations to avoid the cyclone fury which injured 16 people in different parts of the state.

Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde and Collector Rajesh Narvekar informed that 162 ‘kutcha' homes were destroyed and there were 360 incidents of big or small tree branches crashing.

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