CALCUTTA, India (AP) – Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruit, water and tarpaulins Thursday to victims of a ferocious cyclone that killed at least 121 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts. Rescuers cleared hundreds of uprooted trees and electricity poles blocking roads to the devastated areas in Bihar state, said Sharwan Kumar, a state administrator. Telephone services also were restored in most of the region after a 30-hour interruption. Twelve bodies were found Thursday in Purnea district, raising the death toll in Bihar state to 82, Kumar told The Associated Press. Survivors began clearing debris from their homes and repairing fallen roofs in Bihar and neighboring West Bengal state. Hundreds of poor villagers sheltered in government buildings where local officials set up relief centers. Police and rescue teams recovered another 39 bodies in the worst-hit villages in West Bengal — Hematabad, Raiganj and Kiran Dighi — since Wednesday, said Ramanuj Chakraborty, a senior local official. Packing winds of more than 100 mph (160 kph), the cyclone struck close to midnight Tuesday. Hundreds of people were injured and thousands left homeless. They were caught unaware as there was no cyclone warning from the weather department, said Devesh Chandra Thakur, Bihar state's minister for disaster management. Photo: Indian woman Ropina Bibi, 28, looks as her husband removes debris of their hut in cyclone affected Bikor village, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Thursday, April 15, 2010. (Photo: Anupam Nath/AP)