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Bangladesh cyclone death toll rises to 3,000
Published on Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:14, Updated on Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:42 in World section
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Bangladesh: The death toll in has crossed the 3,000 mark in Bangladesh.
But this number may mount with the Bangladesh Red Crescent society raising fear that at least 10,000 people may have died.
Abdul Rob is consumed with despair. His house is swamped with stinking mud-- now just a dangerous jumble of mishapen corrugated iron and wood.
It is because Cyclone Sidr took everything including his eight-year-old son Farid.
"No one gave us any warning about the cyclone, neither from the government nor from the local authority,” says Abdul.
It is a complaint you hear everywhere in Goalkhali - 114 bodies have been found here, and another hundred are still missing.
If they had known they could have got to the special cyclone shelters nearby the concrete pillars supporting this one still bear green stain of the flood waters.
Even if they had got here, they might not have been allowed in - a thousand people crammed into this rooms, which had been previously been used as a school.
“The teacher complains there aren't enough shelters in the area. The district has a population of one and a half million people, but only two hundred and four shelters,” says a teacher, Abdullah Mannan.
However, whether it was a lack of warning or a lack of shelter it still amounts to the same thing. Thousands of people were still at risk when Cyclone Sidr smashed into the coast.
The world knew about Cyclone Sidr for days before it hit, yet tragically no one came to warn those most in danger.
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