Showing posts with label landfall in northern India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landfall in northern India. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Aid workers race to prepare Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps for monsoon wind, rain.

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10 May 2019

Refugees plant vetiver grass on sandy slopes to prevent monsoon-related landslides
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Cox’s Bazar – When Cyclone Fani – one of the most powerful Indian Ocean storms of the past decade – barrelled up the Bay of Bengal a week ago making landfall in northern India and western Bangladesh, it left 24 people dead, a trail of destruction and thousands displaced. Some 2.6 million people – a million in India and 1.6 million in Bangladesh – were evacuated from its path, potentially saving thousands of lives.