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Super Cyclone Amphan tracker: India and Bangladesh brace for catastrophic 115mph storm

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India and Bangladesh are bracing for a super cyclone that threatens to claim lives, cause catastrophic flooding and destroy more than half a million homes.

Amid fears of a humanitarian disaster, millions living in the path of Cyclone Amphan - the most powerful storm in 20 years - have been moved to higher ground, but the mass evacuation has been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.

The monster storm was churning through the Bay of Bengal and was due to make landfall on Wednesday afternoon local time in a region that is home to millions of vulnerable residents in low-lying flood-prone coastal areas and the world's largest refugee camp.

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