Cyclones, such as hurricanes in the Atlantic or typhoons in the Pacific, are a common threat in the region, but scientists say climate replacement is likely to make them more intense and frequent.
Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in southern Bangladesh on Monday, but the government tried to protect around a million people before the monster typhoon hit.
With constant winds of 80 kilometers (55 miles) per hour, it left devastation in the country’s low-lying and densely populated coastal region, home to tens of millions of people.
The government said only about 10,000 homes with tin roofs had been “destroyed or damaged” and that crops on giant expanses of farmland had been destroyed at a time of record food inflation.
Divers from the fire brigade have discovered the bodies of 4 team members from a dredging ship that sank the typhoon in the Bay of Bengal.
“We discovered one frame on Tuesday night and three more this morning. Four members of the team are still missing,” Abdullah Pasha of the fire brigade told AFP.
Almost five million people were still without power on Wednesday, Debashish Chakrabarty, head of the Rural Electrification Council, told AFP.
Nearly a million people who were evacuated from low-lying spaces have now returned to their homes.
The trees were uprooted like the capital Dhaka, many miles from the center of the storm.
Heavy rains lashed much of the country, flooding cities including Dhaka, Khulna and Barisal, which accumulated 324 millimeters (13 inches) of rain on Monday.
In recent years, better forecasts and more effective evacuation plans have particularly reduced casualties from those storms.
The worst on record, in 1970, killed thousands of people.