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Families stay in unfinished shops in the coastal town of Mandvi as Cyclone Biparjoy makes landfall, tearing down power poles and uprooting trees after pummeling the Indian coastline.
Lakshman Ramji had to move his family to an unfinished block of concrete shophouses near the town’s centre after the storm destroyed the roof of their mud house.
More than 180,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat and neighbouring Pakistani Sindh province fled the path of Biparjoy before it made landfall. The storm packed sustained winds of up to 125 kilometres (78 miles) per hour as it struck -- but weakened overnight. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES