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Cyclone Biparjoy approaches Karachi, people urged to stay away from shorelines

Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Sunday urged people to stay away from shorelines as Cyclone Biparjoy, which is heading towards the coastal areas of Pakistan and India, lay at a distance of about 760 kilometres south of Karachi, Dawn reported.Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper. As per the state-run Radio Pakistan, the NDMA also called on people to follow local authorities’ guidance in any emergency situation.
The Karachi commissioner has over the last few days banned entry to the beaches in Karachi, as well as fishing, sailing, swimming, and bathing at seas within the territorial limit of Karachi owing to the threat from today till the end of the storm.It came as the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in its daily forecast located the cyclone near latitude 18.1°N and longitude 67.5°E, and said the system is “likely to keep tracking further in the north-northeast direction during next 24 hours”, according to Dawn.

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