In Bangladesh Cyclone Remal death toll rises to 10
Cyclone Remal heat Bangladesh and damaged various areas of the country still it is continuing all over the country. The death toll from Cyclone Remal, which smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh last night, has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, officials said.
The deceased mostly died after they were crushed under fallen houses or collapsed walls or trees.
Heavy rains with strong winds are still battering the region,
Fierce gales and crashing waves battered the coast as Cyclone Remal made landfall on Sunday night. By today afternoon, it had weakened into a storm, but winds and rain still lashed the coast.
The severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’ affected 400,000 people, damaging 50,000 homesteads, uprooting trees, breaking electric and telephone poles, causing a wind-driven surge inundating a vast area of the Sundarbans and embankments in low-lying regions, latest news by official .
“Hundreds of shrimp enclosures have been washed away, a huge number of thatched houses and standing crops were damaged while trees, electricity and telephone poles were uprooted. Many villages were also submerged by the tidal surge.
Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) of Mongla West Zone, fire service and civil defense are working to rehabilitate the affected coastal people. At this moment we know that heavy rainfall creating flood in many low lying areas of the country.