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41 Killed, Millions Displaced As Floods Hit Bangladesh, India

41 Killed, Millions Displaced As Floods Hit Bangladesh, India

June 19, 2022 3:48 am

Officials revealed on that monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India killed at least 41 people and caused disastrous floods that trapped millions of others.

Floods are a constant threat to millions of people in Bangladesh’s low-lying areas, but researchers warn climate change is increasing the frequency, fury, and unpredictability of these natural disasters.

Over the last week, torrential rains have inundated large swaths of Bangladesh’s northeast, forcing military to evacuate families blocked off from neighbouring settlements.

Schools have been converted into relief shelters to house entire villages inundated by rivers that burst their banks in a couple of hours.

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Death Toll In Bangladesh Port Depot Fire Rises To 49

Death Toll In Bangladesh Port Depot Fire Rises To 49

June 6, 2022 4:23 am

No fewer than 49 people have been confirmed dead so far and hundreds injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials confirmed on Monday. 

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the toll is expected to rise further, with some of the more than 300 people injured in serious condition, officials said, while volunteers reported that there were more bodies inside the smouldering, wreckage-strewn facility.

It was earlier reported that the fire started late on Saturday at the depot in Sitakunda, which stores around 4,000 containers, many of them filled with …

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Port Depot Fire In Bangladesh Leaves 49 Killed, 300 Injured

June 5, 2022 2:37 pm

A recent bizzare incident has seen 49 people dead and hundreds injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh on Sunday.

The toll was expected to rise, with some of the more than 300 people injured in serious condition, officials have reported while volunteers reported that there were more bodies inside the smoldering, wreckage-strewn facility.

The fire started late on Saturday at the depot in Sitakunda, which stores around 4,000 containers, many of them filled with garments destined for Western retailers. The facility is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the major …

Bangladesh Container Depot Fire Leaves 16 Killed, 170 Injured

Bangladesh Container Depot Fire Leaves 16 Killed, 170 Injured

June 5, 2022 4:28 am

A massive fire that swept through a container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, on Sunday morning has killed no fewer than 16 people while leaving more than 170, according to officials.

According to the officials, the fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the port city of Chittagong, triggering multiple explosions.

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‘Sixteen people have been killed in the fire. The number of fatalities is expected to rise as some of the injured are in critical condition,’ Chittagong’s chief doctor, Elias Chowdhury, told the reporters on Sunday.

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Cyclone Toll Hits 88 As Bangladesh And India Mop Up

Cyclone Toll Hits 88 As Bangladesh And India Mop Up

May 21, 2020 3:17 pm

India and Bangladesh began a massive clean-up Thursday after the fiercest cyclone since 1999 killed at least 88 people, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Cyclone Amphan flattened houses, uprooted trees, blew off roofs and toppled electricity pylons, while a storm surge inundated coastal villages and wrecked shrimp farms vital to the local economy.

The United Nations office in Bangladesh estimates 10 million people were affected, and some 500,000 people may have lost their homes.

But the death toll was far lower than the many thousands killed in previous cyclones — a result of improved weather forecasting and …

Super Cyclone' Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

Super Cyclone’ Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

May 21, 2020 3:19 am

The strongest cyclone in decades slammed into Bangladesh and eastern India on Wednesday, sending water surging inland and leaving a trail of destruction as the death toll rose to at least nine.

High winds and torrid rains pounded coastal villages and cities, bringing down power lines, uprooting trees and inundating homes.

“The situation is more worrying than the coronavirus pandemic. We don’t know how to handle it,” India’s West Bengal state leader Mamata Banerjee told reporters late Wednesday.

Read Also: Bangladesh Evacuates 100,000 As Cyclone Bulbul Approaches

“Almost everything is destroyed in the coastal villages of the state.”

Authorities had

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Bangladesh Rescues Hundreds Of Rohingya Stranded At Sea

Bangladesh Rescues Hundreds Of Rohingya Stranded At Sea

April 16, 2020 1:28 pm

At least 24 Rohingya died at sea after their boat failed to reach Malaysia, the coastguard in Bangladesh said on Thursday after rescuing 396 Rohingya people from the vessel which had been adrift for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia.

The official said a “final decision” had been made to send those rescued to neighbouring Myanmar. The coastguard initially said 382 had been rescued but later revised the number higher.

rescued refugees in Cox's Bazaar [Abdul Aziz/Al Jazeera]

Video images showed a crowd of mostly women and children, some stick-thin and barely able to stand, being helped to shore. One refugee told a reporter that the group had

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Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

April 12, 2020 6:56 am

Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister said Sunday.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a military coup on August 15, 1975,

The assassination occurred , nearly four years after he led Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan.

In 1998 Abdul Majed was sentenced in absentia to death along with a dozen other army officers over the murders.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict …

Massive Bangladesh Virus Prayer Gathering Sparks Outcry

Massive Bangladesh Virus Prayer Gathering Sparks Outcry

March 19, 2020 5:18 pm

A massive coronavirus prayer session with tens of thousands of devotees sparked an outcry in Bangladesh Wednesday as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic.

Local police chief Tota Miah said some 10,000 Muslims gathered in an open field in Raipur town in southern Bangladesh to pray “healing verses” from the Koran to rid the country of the deadly virus.

“They held the Khatme Shifa prayers after dawn to free the country from the coronavirus,” Miah told AFP.

Organisers claimed the number of worshippers was 25,000.

He said organisers did not get permission from authorities …

India Crush Bangladesh In Day-Night Test To Sweep Series

November 24, 2019 4:43 pm

Paceman Umesh Yadav claimed five wickets as India thrashed Bangladesh in just over two days of their first day-night Test to sweep the series 2-0 on Sunday.

Bangladesh were bowled out for 195 in less than an hour of the first session on day three in Kolkata, as India won by an innings and 46 runs to record their 12th-straight Test series triumph on home soil.

It was a memorable pink-ball international debut for India, who become the only team to win four consecutive Tests by an innings margin.

Virat Kohli’s side — which has now won seven Tests

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Bangladesh Ban Shahadat For Assaulting Teammate

November 19, 2019 2:02 pm

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday banned former national team fast bowler Shahadat Hossain for three years after he assaulted a teammate in a match.

The temperamental Shahadat was reported by umpires after he was seen to slap and kick a teammate during a National Cricket League match on Sunday.

The national federation imposed a five-year ban but suspended two years of the punishment. Shahadat, who admitted a charge of “physical assault”, was also fined 300,000 taka ($3,540), the board said.

The 33-year-old bowler condemned the ban as “too harsh” and said it would effectively end his controversial cricket career.…

Bangladesh Evacuates 100,000 As Cyclone Bulbul Approaches

November 9, 2019 8:01 am

Bangladesh authorities have evacuated around 100,000 people from the country’s low-lying coastal villages and islands with Cyclone Bulbul set to slam into the country later on Saturday, officials said.

The Meteorological Department has asked local authorities and two ports to raise their highest alert, as the cyclone is expected to unleash a storm surge as high as seven feet (two metres) in coastal districts.

Bulbul, packing a maximum wind speed of 120 kilometres per hour (75 miles), is on course to make landfall near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, which straddles Bangladesh and part of eastern India and …

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