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Bangladesh cyclone toll nears 1 100

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…

Cyclone Sidr batters Bangladesh, killing over 200

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…

Monster cyclone lashes Bangladesh coastline

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…

Thousands evacuated as storm nears Bangladesh

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…

Bangladesh, eastern India on cyclone alert

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…

More than 100 Bangladeshi fishermen missing in storm

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…