Nine people died and millions were evacuated on Tuesday October 25 after a cyclone hit Bangladesh.
Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in southern Bangladesh late Monday, but authorities managed to get about a million people to safety before the monster weather system hit.
“Nine people have died, most by trees falling including three from one family in the eastern district of Cumilla”, Jebun Nahar, a government official stated.
The disaster management Ministry evacuated people living in low-regions and moved to cyclone shelters.
“They spent the night in cyclone shelters,” Disaster Management Ministry secretary Kamrul Ahsan said.
About 33,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, in the Bay of Bengal, were ordered to stay indoors and there were no reports of any casualties or damage.
In eastern Indian state of West Bengal, thousands of people were evacuated on Monday to more than 100 relief centres.
The second “super cyclone” ever recorded over the Bay of Bengal, which hit in 2020, killed more than 100 people in Bangladesh and India, and affected millions.
Cyclones, equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic or typhoons in the Pacific, are a regular menace but scientists say climate change is making them more intense and frequent.
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