NEW DELHI — The death toll from the powerful cyclone that ripped through the eastern coast of India rose to 25 on Tuesday, with most of the deaths caused by falling trees and collapsing buildings, according to a government official in Andhra Pradesh.
The devastation was particularly acute in the port city of Visakhapatnam, where the eye of the cyclone passed Sunday, and where 15 people died.
Nearly 400,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, though a relief official in Odisha said Tuesday that most people there had returned to their homes.
In Visakhapatnam, roughly 120-mile-per-hour winds had mangled and destroyed electric and telephone poles.