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 materialize. Bangladeshi army spokesman Lt.-Col. Main Ullah Chowdhury on Monday pegged the offical number of dead at 3,113 - a jump of almost 1,500 since Saturday. The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, said that figure could climb to 10,000 once rescuers reach all of the storm-affected areas. Thousands of others remain stranded in remote areas after Cyclone Sidr tore down power lines and ripped up roads on Thursday with winds that reached 250 km/h as they whipped through the Bay of Bengal. Reporting from Bangladesh, the CBC's Priya Ramu said the country's armed forces have been deployed to help disaster relief workers move in and out of the damage zones. Tens of thousands of volunteers are scouring through the wreckage, discovering more dead bodies and...
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