According to preliminary reports 25,000 kutchha houses were damaged in Koraput district, 15,000 houses in Gajapati, 7,000 in Rayagada and 1,000 houses in Malkangiri, the SRC said, adding reports from other districts were awaited.
The casualties remained at three as the lives of many people were saved due to timely evacuation, he said. Though there was not much damage in Ganjam, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur and Kalahandi districts, massive uprooting of trees was reported from Koraput, Malkangiri, Gajapati and Nabarangpur, he said.
As the wind speed was about 100 kmph when Cyclone Hudhud passed Odisha, there has been substantial damage to electrical infrastructures, Energy Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said.
