At least ten people died in Bangladesh and neighboring India due to the passage of Cyclone Remal, which began to weaken this Monday after making landfall in the Bay of Bengal overnight and led to the evacuation of almost a million people.
Bangladesh authorities confirmed the deaths of at least nine people when the cycle hit the coastal districts of the country.
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Additionally, police and local administration confirmed two more deaths in western Satkhira district and Chittagong city.
They assured that they were still collecting information about the damage caused by the storm, but the information received up to. the moment suggested a great cyclone effect
“The tide that accompanied the cyclone overflowed the dams, leaving many areas under water. In some areas, dams also collapsed,” he indicated.
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The body of the cyclone began making landfall around 6:00 p.m. local time (12:00 GMT) across the coastal town of Khepupara, near the western port of Monga, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said.
The maximum sustained wind speed at the center of the cycle was 90 kilometers per hour, which reached gusts of 120 kilometers per hour, according to the BMD.
“It took a long hour to happen. By morning, everything had turned into depression. We have already asked the seaports to lower the danger signs,” BDM meteorologist Bazlur Rashid told EFE.
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The effects of the cyclone were also notable in the Indian state of West Bengal, adjacent to Bangladesh, where authorities confirmed the death of one person due to the storm.
An Indian boy looks inside a damaged car in Kolkata, eastern India, May 27, 2024.
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Images released by the Indian agency PTI show dozens of trees uprooted in Calcutta and other districts of the state, as well as flooded roads and the walls of some houses blown down by the wind.
Bangladeshi authorities said that around 800,000 people had been evacuated to different shelters before the cycle made landfall.
Added to this is the evacuation of more than 100,000 people in India, according to Indian media.
The Bay of Bengal is often affected by cyclones, which usually occur between April and May, and October and November. In May 2020, the Amphan supercyclone left more than a hundred dead between both countries, andn one of the worst incidents of its kind in years.
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