Category: Climate Change
He is a miracle boy
From Potuakhali: Villagers call him “miracle boy”. His name is Obaidul (7). His job was to cut fish and make packets with his mother. During the time of “Cyclone Sidr” hited in Bangladesh he was in an island named Kolagacia (situated in southern Bangladesh). The tidal waves of cyclone drifted him about 20 kilometers. His […]
Waiting for assistance
From Khuriakhali, Bangerhat: It was a tough task to enter here because almost every road of entering Khuriakhali is unfit for vehicles. But one canal is available to come here. That’s why I started to come here through a tiny boat on Friday (23 November, 2007). Dead bodies of several animals and birds were […]
In search of a lost child
Southkhali, Bagerhat: Hundreds of men, women and children, their lives shattered by cyclone Sidr, queued for desperately needed relief in Southkhali in Bagerhat Tuesday. After a long wait with little drinking water, the villagers, many bereaved and all in a state of shock, eventually received either biscuits or other dry food from relief workers. Aleya […]
Stench of death hangs over Bangladesh village
SWARANKHOLA, Bangladesh : The stench of death from bloated corpses wafts through the air at Swarankhola, a small fishing village in southern Bangladesh that bore the brunt of a deadly cyclone last week. Three days after the Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal with winds of 250 kms
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