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/ 17 November 2007
Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed nearly 1 100 people and pummelled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves. Cyclone Sidr smashed into the country’s southern coastline late on Thursday night with 250km/h winds that whipped up a 5m tidal surge.
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/ 16 November 2007
A super cyclone packing winds of 250km/h battered Bangladesh coasts overnight, killing over 200 people, local officials said on Friday. They said hundreds of people were injured and scores were missing, they said, but Cyclone Sidr was now losing strength and rain had mostly stopped.
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/ 15 November 2007
A super cyclone was bearing down rapidly on Bangladesh’s south-west coastline on Thursday, ripping off tin roofs from houses and uprooting trees, as hundreds of thousands were evacuated to safer ground. London-based Tropical Storm Risk said Cyclone Sidr was a category-four storm, packing winds of 250km/h.
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/ 15 November 2007
The outer reaches of an expected severe cyclone buffeted Saint Martin’s island off Bangladesh’s coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of mainlanders were evacuated to shelters and high land, officials said. Strong winds with a speed of about 80km/h started slamming the island at about noon.
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/ 14 November 2007
Thousands of people fled their homes along Bangladesh’s southern coast on Wednesday as volunteers with loudspeakers went from village to village warning that a severe cyclone was approaching from the Bay of Bengal. ”Where shall I go?” said a woman in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh’s main sea resort, holding her child in one hand.
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/ 23 September 2007
More than 100 Bangladeshi fishermen were missing after at least 15 fishing boats sank in a storm in the Bay of Bengal, witnesses and officials said on Sunday. The Chittagong port authority issued an international maritime alert advising all ships and fishing boats to remain in shelters until further notice.