At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion on Wednesday at a thermal power plant in northern India, officials said.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Eleven premature babies died within 24 hours at a hospital in northern India, with parents saying six of them suffocated because it had run out of oxygen cylinders.