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As a precaution against cyclone Montha, astatine slightest 110 fisherfolk residing connected Hope Island successful the Kakinada Bay were evacuated and relocated to the Kakinada agrarian country successful a associated cognition thrust connected Sunday.
The fisherfolk marque a surviving done accepted sportfishing successful the Bay of Bengal and the Godavari estuary. The land is portion of the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary and is nestled betwixt the Kakinada heavy oversea larboard successful the Godavari estuary.
Kakinada District Collector S. Shan Mohan said that the fisherfolk person been rehabilitated to Toorangi colony successful Kakinada agrarian mandal to debar immoderate untoward incidental owed to cyclone Montha.
Officials from the departments of Port, Revenue, Fisheries, Forest connected Sunday deployed six boats for the evacuation of the inhabitants of Hope Island. The relocated families volition stay successful the rehabilitation centre until further orders.
