BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) -One person was killed on India’s eastern coast after Cyclone Montha made landfall around midnight, with heavy rain and gusty winds also damaging crops and utility poles, officials said on Wednesday.

India’s weather department has forecast extremely heavy rain on Wednesday for the coastal states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal with wind gusts of up to 90 kmph. The cyclone is expected to weaken to a deep depression later in the day.

A 48-year-old woman was killed in Andhra Pradesh’s Konaseema district after a palm tree fell on her, local officials said.

As of Tuesday night, the government has reported damage to more than 38,000 hectares of crops, several power lines and utility poles in Andhra Pradesh.

Efforts were underway to restore po

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