Cyclone Phailin makes landfall - in pictures

People run for shelter following a cyclone warning at the Bay of Bengal coast in Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district about 120 miles (200km) from the eastern city Bhubaneswar Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

Evacuated Indian villagers get down from a truck at a relief camp as it rains near Berhampur, India Photograph: Bikas Das/AP

Evacuated villagers receive food in a temporary cyclone shelter in Chatrapur, Ganjam district, about 120 miles from the city of Bhubaneswar Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

Fishermen tie their boat along the shore before leaving for a safer place at Donkuru village in Srikakulam district, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee to storm shelters as cyclone Phailin closed in, threatening to cut a wide swath of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

A motorcyclist drives past fallen trees during heavy rain and winds near Gopalpur beach Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

This satellite image obtained from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) shows tropical cyclone Phailin over the Bay of Bengal Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images

Evacuated villagers are brought to a relief camp as it rains near Berhampur, India Photograph: Bikas Das/AP

Indian evacuees travel in an auto rickshaw to leave their village through heavy wind and rain in Sanabandha village near Gopalpur Photograph: Asit Kumar/AFP/Getty Images

A villager braves strong winds and rain in Podampeta, Ganjam district Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

Men ride through floods in Berhampur, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, formerly Orissa Photograph: Bikas Das/AP

A man covers himself with a plastic sheet as he walks to a safer place in the village of Donkurum, Andhra Pradesh Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Women walk past a collapsed marquee and chairs set up for a Christian prayer service in Ranchi Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Lorry driver Jairam Yadav speaks on his mobile phone after his lorry carrying Toyota cars was overturned by strong winds on the national highway linking Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, formerly Orissa Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images