Deaths in Bay of Bengal cyclone

At least 17 people have been killed after a cyclone hit coastal areas of eastern India and Bangladesh, triggering widespread floods.Thousands of people in the Indian state of West Bengal were left homeless after rivers burst their banks amid heavy rain on Monday."The situation is very grave, countless families have been displaced, especially in the Sundarbans," Kanti Ganguly, the state minister for the Sundarbans region of West Bengal, said.At least 10 people died in West Bengal as houses collapsed and trees were felled by the storm, officials said.Heavy rains caused flooding across Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, as winds of up to 100kph brought down trees and communication lines."Our village is submerged, we are living in camps and have no clue what further calamity awaits us," Anil Krishna Mistry, a villager, told Reuters by telephone from Bali in the Sundarbans.