At least 35 other people were killed and several houses destroyed when Cyclone Sitrang devastated Bangladesh’s southern and central coasts after making landfall overnight, according to officials and media reports. Sitrang finished landing and weakened into a tropical depression over Bangladesh in the early hours of Tuesday. Prothom Alo, a Bengali daily, reported.
At least thirteen other people have lost their lives to tropical storms in Bangladesh. Tropical Storm Sitrang evolved in the Bay of Bengal before heading north toward Bangladesh’s vast coastline, prompting the government to evacuate thousands of people to cyclone shelters on Monday. Heavy rains fell across the country on the day, flooding many swathes of Bangladesh’s southern and southwestern coastal regions.
IMD tweeted “the deep depression over Bangladesh (remnant of cyclonic typhoon “SITRANG”) further weakened into a depression and concentrated at 05:30 IST over northeastern Bangladesh and the community about 90 km north-northeast of Agartala and 100 km south-south-southwest of Shillong. “
It is very likely to weaken to a depression and then to a depression until Tuesday night, the IMD said. The weather office warned of wind gusts with speeds reaching 40 to 50 km/h with gusts of 60 km/h across the west. Bengal coast on Tuesday morning, which will be reduced to 30 to 40 km/h with gusts of 50 km/h during the morning.
The system, which was moving towards Bangladesh from the northern Bay of Bengal at a speed of 56 km/h, made landfall between the island of Tinkona and Sandwip near Barisal in Bangladesh between 9:30 p. m. and 11:30 p. m. on Monday with sustained wind. speed from 80 to 90 km/h with gusts of one hundred km/h, said the Kolkata Regional Meteorological Center. Bangladeshi media reported that the cyclone had brought heavy rains to the southeast of the neighboring country.
Cyclone Sitrang weakens in the northeastern states of India.
The torrential rains that have continued since then have caused serious flooding in several parts of Guwahati, Assam.
Tides hit the coast of Bakkhali Beach in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, amid the ‘Sitrang’ cyclone warning.
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