At least 16 people have died after a cyclone struck Bangladesh’s southern coast on Tuesday, razing down properties, snapping communications and power links, and forcing the evacuation of about a million people.

Nine people are killed in the Philippines and 11 go missing due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, the national disaster agency says.

Heavy rains and howling winds lashed eastern India as the COVID-stricken country's second cyclone in as many weeks battered the coast, forcing more than 1.2 million people to seek shelter.