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A massive relief effort is underway in south-eastern Bangladesh to provide food and temporary shelter to tens-of-thousands of people left homeless by a cyclone yesterday. Major Atiqur Rehman, in the disaster control room in the Prime Minister's office in Dhaka…
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Bangladesh - Cyclone DHA-Geneva Situation Report No. 1 19 May 1997 I. SITUATION 1. A severe cyclonic storm with a core of Hurricane winds in the Bay of Bengal has started to impact the coastline in the Chittagong and Cox's Bazar area.…
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BANGLADESH: CYCLONE Latest events Further to the Alert of yesterday on the cyclone in Bangladesh, the following was reported by the BDRCS/Federation Delegation in Dhaka. Overnight, the cyclone has changed the direction to the East and this afternoon, 19th May 1997,…
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CARE Prepares Relief Efforts Atlanta, May 19, 1997, 1 p.m. EST -- A cyclone with winds of 125 miles per hour hit the southeast coast of Bangladesh today. CARE staff will launch relief efforts when the storm clears and…
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Geneva, May 19, 1997 A severe cyclone hit the coast of Bangladesh Monday. Winds of up to 180 - 200 kph hit areas around Cox Bazar and Teknaf areas. In response to the cyclone and a feared storm surge…
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SUMMARY A severe cyclone is currently gathering intensity in the Bay of Bengal. The latest information from the Storm Warning Centre in Dhaka indicates that at 15.00 hours today, 18th May, the cyclone with a wind speed of up to…
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ip/97/472 Bangladesh : the European Commission approves an emergency humanitarian aid worth ECU 350.000 for victims of "One Bravo" cyclone The European Commission has approved an emergency humanitarian aid worth ECU 350.000 for victims of the catastrophic cyclone "One Bravo" in Bangladesh.…
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Flooding in Bangladesh is moving slowly southwards, inundating new areas and leaving tens of thousands of families in desperate need of food and clean water. Despite a very low response to the Federation's appeal which has forced it to…
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Fourteen flood victims on their way to pick up relief supplies drowned when their boat capsized in a southern Bangladesh river, police said today. The boat sank Monday when it was rocked by strong winds on…
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The people who live on Bangladesh's newly-formed islands are some of its poorest - vulnerable to unscrupulous landlords, a changing landscape and, sometimes, to cyclones. ACTIONAID is one of the few charities working with them. Slowly, Bangladesh is changing shape. The…
