The death toll from a cyclone that barrelled into the coasts of Bangladesh and India has risen to 24, as the two nations assess the scale of devastation wreaked by the powerful storm.
According to Aljazeera News, Bangladesh carried out one of it’s biggest-ever evacuation drives, moving some 2.1 million people to cyclone shelters specially built to minimise casualties from such storms, which can claim thousands of lives.
Cyclone Bulbul, packing winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour when it hit late on Saturday, killed 12 people in Bangladesh – 11 from falling trees – and 12 in India’s West Bengal and Odisha states.
Five others remain missing after a fishing trawler sank in squally weather near Bangladesh’s southern island of Bhola.
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