Cyclone Phailin has ripped through India's east coast, leaving a trail of destruction and forcing up to one million people to flee in one of the biggest evacuations in India's history.
As emergency teams began assessing the damage from the country's worst cyclone in 14 years, a massive relief effort came into full swing on Sunday to distribute food, clear roads and help the injured.
The worst affected area around the town of Gopalpur, where winds of 200 kilometres per hour came ashore, remained cut off.
AFP reports that elsewhere, roofs were blown off, trees fell across roads and debris was strewn over the streets of state capital Bhubaneswar, where the winds had died down and heavy overnight rainfall had ceased.
Orissa state relief commissioner Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra says that three people had been confirmed dead, while other estimates put the toll at seven.
He says they cleared more than 861,000 people.
Another 100,000 people were moved in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state.
The Indian weather office said that cyclone Phailin had weakened significantly after it moved inland, but warned it still posed a danger, particularly from flooding.
