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DHAKA: The death toll from the powerful cyclone Sidr which hit Bangladesh's southern and southwestern coastal areas on Nov. 15 night climbed to 2,306 by 9 a.m. Monday morning.
The death toll kept rising as the rescuers frantically looked for thousands of missing people in the country's coastal districts and more bodies had been found, Golam Kibria of the Food and Disaster Management Ministry told Xinhua Monday morning.
However, the unofficial figure has already crossed 3,000. And the chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Prof M Abdur Rob Sunday told a press conference here, according to past experiences and reports, the death toll from the cyclone might rise to over 10,000.
According to latest report by Food and Disaster Management Ministry, 28 out of the country's 64 districts came under the fury of the storm, which slammed inland from the Bay of Bengal with terrifying wind speeds of up to 240 km per hour.
Around 3.1 million people of 880,000 families have been leading subhuman life as the storms rendered most of them homeless.
The release said the storm damaged a total of 880,000 houses, either completely or partially.
Standing crops on some 722,890 acres (about 293,000 hectares) of land were damaged either completely or partially.
Some 242,000 domestic animals and poultry birds perished during the tempest, the sources said.
Besides, a total of 50 educational institutions were completely ruined in the storms while 4,046 institutions were damaged partially.
The cyclonic storm Sidr was one of the fiercest cyclones that had hit the region of Bangladesh in the 131 years between 1876 and 2007.
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