Tropical storm floods villages, blows away thatched roofs and cuts power in Bangladesh and India
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Dhaka, Bangladesh: Tropical storm Remal flooded coastal villages, blew away thatched roofs and left hundreds of thousands of people without power Mond...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Tropical storm Remal flooded coastal villages, blew away thatched roofs and left hundreds of thousands of people without power Monday in southern Bangladesh and eastern India. At least 10 people died in Bangladesh.
About 3.7 million people across the coast were affected, said Bangladesh’s junior minister for Disaster Management and Relief, Mohibbur Rahman. More than 35,000 homes were completely destroyed and nearly 115,000 were partially damaged.
He said at least 10 people died in Bangladesh, but Dhaka-based Somoy TV reported at least a dozen people had died and two others were missing in a boat capsizing.
Dozens of Bangladesh villages were flooded after protective embankments either washed away or were damaged by the storm surge, TV stations reported. Nearly 800,000 people were evacuated from vulnerable areas in Bangladesh on Sunday and housed in 9,000 cyclone shelters.
Remal weakened considerably after making landfall in Bangladesh’s Patuakhali district early in the morning with sustained winds of 111 kilometers (69 miles) per hour.
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