Nearly 10,000 homes were destroyed or destroyed by the typhoon that flooded villages and forced the evacuation of a million citizens.
At least 24 other people were killed and millions were left without strength after Cyclone Sitrang hit Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of around a million more.
Most of the deaths were due to falling trees, police and the government said, two of whom died north of the Jamuna River when their boat sank. A Myanmar national running in a boat was also killed when he fell off the bridge, an official said. .
“We haven’t won all the damage reports yet,” said Jebun Nahar, a government official.
About 10 million more people were left without power in districts along the coast on Tuesday, while schools were closed in much of the southern part of the country.
Sitrang made landfall in southern Bangladesh on Monday night. Authorities tried to protect around a million people before it hit.
Another eight people were missing from a dredging boat that capsized in Monday night’s typhoon in the Bay of Bengal near Mirsarai, regional fire chief Abdullah Pasha said. “A strong wind knocked over the dredger and it immediately sank into the Bay of Bengal. ” Divers searched for survivors.
People evacuated from low-lying spaces, such as remote islands and riverbanks, have been moved to thousands of multi-story cyclone shelters, said Ministry of Disaster Management Secretary Kamrul Ahsan.
Ahsan said about 10,000 houses were “destroyed or damaged” by the typhoon and about 1,000 shrimp farms were washed away by floodwaters.
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 that accumulated 324 mm (13 inches) of rain on Monday.
About 33,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, controversially displaced from the mainland to a storm-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, were ordered to stay inland, but there have been no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.
The cyclone toppled trees and sparked widespread panic on the southern island of Maheshkhali after power and telecommunications were cut off.
“Such is the strength of the wind that we may not be able to sleep at night because of concerns that our homes will be destroyed. Snakes have entered many houses. The water also flooded many houses,” said Tahmidul Islam, 25, a resident of Maheshkhali. .
In the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal, thousands of people were evacuated Monday to more than a hundred rescue centers, officials said. No injuries were reported and others began returning home Tuesday.
In 2021, more than a million people were evacuated along India’s east coast before Cyclone Yaas hit the region with winds of up to 155 km/h (96 mph), becoming a Category 2 hurricane.
Cyclone Amphan, the “super cyclone” moment recorded over the Bay of Bengal, killed more than a hundred people in Bangladesh and India and affected millions when it hit in 2020.
In recent years, greater foresight and more effective evacuation plans have especially reduced the number of victims of these storms. The worst on record, in 1970, killed thousands of people.
Cyclones are a normal risk in the region, but scientists say climate change is likely to make them more intense and frequent.