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UNDRO 91/1163 BANGLADESH - FLOODS UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 23 JULY 1991 1. UN DISASTER MANAGEMENT TEAM (DMT) MET WITH EXPERTS FROM BANGLADESH METEROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT AND BANGLADESH WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD TO REVIEW OVERALL FLOOD SITUATION IN COUNTRY. 2. FROM ANALYSIS OF MONSOON…
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UNDRO 91/0731BANGLADESH - CYCLONE UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 30 APRIL 1991 1. SEVERE STORM WITH WINDS UP TO OVER 200 KPH HIT BANGLADESHI COASTLINE IN CHITTAGONG AREA ON TUESDAY 30 APRIL. MEDIA REPORT SO FAR MORE THAN 200…
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After the devastating famine of 1974, Bangladesh has successfully avoided any further disaster of its kind, surviving two close calls in 1979 and 1984 and a succession of floods in the recent years. Welcome as it,…
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UNDRO 89/1676 BANGLADESH - FLOODS UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 14 AUGUST 1989 1. FOLLOWING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES FLASH FLOODS OCCURRED IN SYLHET DISTRICT. AFFECTED UPAZILAS ARE ZAKIGANJ, KANAIGHAT, BIANIBAZAR AND GOLAPGANG. MOST AFFECTED IS ZAKIGANJ UPAZILA WHERE BREAK OF EMBANKMENT…
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UNDRO 89/0924BANGLADESH - TORNADO UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 28 APRIL 1989 1. WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON 26 APRIL, TORNADO HIT 5 DISTRICTS IN NORTH OF DHAKA. 500 PEOPLE REPORTEDLY KILLED AND SEVERAL THOUSANDS INJURED. 2. ALL ROADS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES…
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UNDRO 88/2644BANGLADESH - CYCLONE UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 30 NOVEMBER 1988 1. CYCLONE WITH WIND SPEEDS ABOVE 150 KM PER HOUR CROSSED INLAND OVER PATUAKHALI/KHULUA COAST NIGHT 29 NOVEMBER ENDING IN CYCLONIC STORM OVER MADARIPUR DISTRICT, SOUTH OF…
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UNDRO 88/1782BANGLADESH - FLOODS UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 30 AUGUST 1988 1. FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS IN THE PAST 2 WEEKS: 125 PEOPLE DEAD, 13 MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED. 35 DISTRICTS OUT OF 64, AREAS OF 25,000 SQ.KM.…
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UNDRO 88/1428 BANGLADESH - FLOODS UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO.1 12 JULY 1988 1. MULTIPLE FLASH FLOODS CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS IN NORTH-EAST BANGLADESH, ARE SERIOUSLY AFFECTING 7 DISTRICTS: SUNAMGANJ, NETROKONA, SATKHIRA, BOGRA, MOULAVIBAZAR, HABIGANJ, AND RANGPUR. 2. SO FAR 61 PEOPLE REPORTED DEAD WITH DAMAGE…
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Introduction When hunger is as pervasive and as persistently so as in Bangladesh, the food problem ceases to be just one aspect of the economic problem. It becomes indistinguishable from the totality of the development problem itself.…
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UNDRO 87/1279BANGLADESH - CYCLONIC STORM/TIDAL SURGE UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 10 JUNE 1987 1. ON 5 JUNE MIDNIGHT A DEEP DEPRESSION (PREVIOUSLY FORMED IN BAY OF BENGAL) CROSSED HATIYA, SWANDWIP, PATUAKHALI, BHOLA REGION AS A CYCLONIC STORM ACCOMPANIED…
