The death toll from a powerful cyclone that battered coastal areas of Bangladesh surpassed 2,300 on Sunday as aid organizations tried for a third day to reach survivors. Rescuers were struggling to clear roads of fallen trees to get to people still stranded, said Jock Baker, emergency co-ordinator for Care International. "There are some places that are just very difficult to get to, except by helicopter, and there are other needs for helicopters. They've a lot on their hands," he told CBC News. Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal late Thursday with winds of 250 km/hr and caused a storm surge of five metres. The storm wiped out roads, toppled power lines and damaged as many as two million homes. Parts of the country were still without power on Sunday and more than one million people remained in shelters. Mohammad Abdur Rob, chairman of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, told Reuters the overall death toll from...
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More than 10,000 people are feared dead, and "several hundreds of thousands" have been left homeless by a tropical cyclone in southwestern Burma, a United Nations relief official has told CBC News....
Burma's reclusive military government began observing three days of official mourning Tuesday for victims of Cyclone Nargis, as international pressure mounted for the regime to allow more foreign...
The death toll from a cyclone that struck the coast of Bangladesh last week has exceeded 3,100, while survivors of the vicious storm wonder when millions of dollars in promised aid will...
More than 100,000 people may have perished in the deadly cyclone that ravaged Burma, a U.S diplomat said Wednesday, adding that the situation is becoming "increasingly horrendous." "The...
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Survivors in about 70 per cent of storm-ravaged Bangladesh are receiving help from aid workers, but there was still a large swath of the country that was too ravaged to access on Tuesday. "Thirty...
The United Nations said on Wednesday (May 14) up to 2.5 million people might have been affected by the Myanmar cyclone and proposed a high-level donors conference as the Myanmar junta again limited...
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