CNN)Coronavirus patients were among more than 100,000 people evacuated from low-lying coastal areas in India's western states as a cyclone made landfall near Mumbai on Wednesday.
India's financial center avoided the worst of Cyclone Nisarga, which made landfall at around 1 p.m. local time (3:30 a.m. ET), according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). The cyclone, which formed in the Arabian sea on Tuesday morning, hit Alibag town, south of Mumbai.
At least one person was killed during the storm. A 58-year-old man died after an electrical transformer fell on him in Raigad, a district in India's Maharashtra state, according to a senior National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) official.
"So far this is the only death reported in the state and we have begun [a] restorations operation this evening as soon as the cyclone passed," NDRF Commandant in Maharashtra Anupam Srivastava told CNN.
Cyclones in that part of India are relatively rare -- Mumbai, which is home to 18 million people, was last hit by a major storm in 1948.
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Storm surges of approximately one to two meters (3.3 to 6.6 foot) are likely to inundate low-lying areas of Mumbai, Thane and Raigad districts, the IMD said.
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... The cyclone, which formed in the Arabian sea on Tuesday morning, hit Alibag town, south of Mumbai
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The official earlier said that up to 40 trees were uprooted, some of which fell on the Mumbai Pune expressway.
A 40 km (24 mile) stretch from Raigad to Alibag received the brunt of the damage -- where winds stripped buildings of tin roofs and a small number of trees fell on houses.
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The region saw wind speeds up to 130 kph (81 mph), Srivastava told CNN earlier, but added that damage in Maharashtra was minimal.
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