Five million people remain deprived of electricity on Wednesday.
Le Monde with AFP
The balance sheet increases in Bangladesh. At least 28 people died and four others disappeared in the wake of the Cyclone Sitrang in Bangladesh, where millions of inhabitants are still deprived of electricity, the authorities communicated on Wednesday.
Du divers from the firefighters were found the bodies of four crew members of a shipwrecked dredging boat when the cyclone passes in the gulf of Bengal.
“We found a body on Tuesday evening and three others this morning [Wednesday]. Four crew members are still missing,” AFP) told AFP agency Abdullah Pasha, the fire department .
10,000 dwellings destroyed
Sitrang touched earth Monday evening in the south of the country. The authorities had succeeded in organizing the evacuation to shelters of about a million people, before he strikes.
Five million people are still deprived of electricity on Wednesday, said Debashish Chakrabarty, an official of the rural electrification office. According to the government, nearly 10,000 dilapidated metal roofs have been “destroyed or damaged” and market gardening have been devastated on large expanses of agricultural land. Trees have been uprooted even in the capital, Dacca, which, hundreds of kilometers from the cyclone, also underwent torrential rains, like a large part of the country on Monday.
Nearly a million people who had been evacuated from the regions of bass land have now returned home. On the island of Bhashan Char, in the Gulf of Bengal, where 33,000 Rohingya refugees live on storms, no victim or no damage is to be deplored, according to the authorities.