DHAKA: At least 35 people are reported to have been killed due to cyclone Sitarang with its impact affecting Indian Assam too. In Bangladesh about one crore people are forced to live without electricity.
Reports from multiple sources suggested that Cyclone Sitang devastated the southern coast and central parts of Bangladesh, and completed its landfall in the early hours of Tuesday. It had now weakened into a tropical depression over Bangladesh.
Media reports numbers and unofficial counts said the cyclone killed 35 people, including leveling homes and other infrastructure, uprooting trees and disrupting road communication and power supplies.
Local media reported that the cyclone made its landfall on the south-west Bangladesh coast, but media reports said the most deaths were from the south-western Chattogram coastline, where a sand-laden dredger sank in the Bay of Bengal, drowning eight workers as The strong wind flipped the ship.
More than a million people were evacuated to cyclone shelters on the beach, but deaths were also reported from areas in central Bangladesh as strong winds caused houses to collapse and trees uprooted, causing casualties.
