2007 Tropical Cyclone Sidr
21 facilities taking part · since Nov 16, 2007.
(Category-IV storm with gusts of up to 280 kmph)
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Bangladesh cyclone death toll reaches 1,100
Last updated : Saturday, 17 November , 2007, 00:51
Dhaka: Aid workers struggled to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that slammed into the coast with 240-kmph winds, killing at least 1,100 people, savaging waterfront towns and villages and plunging much of the country into darkness, a Bangladeshi news agency said on Friday.
The cyclone roared across the country's southwestern coast late Thursday with driving rain and high waves, leveling thousands of flimsy huts, uprooting trees, and destroying crops and fish farms in 15 coastal districts, officials and witnesses said.
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DHAKA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a super cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll neared 1,900 on Sunday and a government official declared the disaster "a national calamity".
Facilities and organizations
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Caritas India
Vatican City, 20 November 2007 - Caritas has started the first round of food distribution for 120,000 people (23,500 families) in coastal Bangladesh in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr. The storm hit the coast of Ban...
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Oxfam Trust in India
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_in_action/emergencies/sasia_floods07.html
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Americares - HQ [medical aid]
AmeriCares relief team has arrived in Bangladesh and is working with our partners to evaluate the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr. One emergency shipment of medicines and supplies has been sent from Stamford, Connectic...
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Hope Coalition America (Division of Operation USA)
With casualties and damages mounting, Cyclone Sidr's widespread destruction has affected over 650,000 people throughout Bangladesh, with many missing and many homes destroyed. Operation USA is responding to this disas...
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World Vision US Headquarters
Dear Friend, A monster cyclone pummeled the southeast coast of Bangladesh late Thursday. Winds reaching 150 mph drove high waves across lowland areas, flattening houses and forcing half a million people to flee for...