Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Sunday started evacuating people from vulnerable places and deployed 128 team of disaster response teams in eight districts as IMD forecasts the formation of a cyclonic storm, named Cyclone Montha, by next morning as a deep depression gains strength in the Bay of Bengal.

The IMD, in its latest bulletin issued at 9 pm, said that the deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal formed earlier in the day moved west-northwestwards and lay about 790 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 900 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).

"The system is likely to move nearly west-northwestwards and intensify further into a cyclonic storm over southwest and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal during the next 12 hours," the IMD said, adding that

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