{"id":2645,"date":"2024-05-27T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2024-05-27T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:46:29","slug":"bangladesh-cyclone-toll-rises-to-10-around-30000-homes-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bangladesh-cyclone-toll-rises-to-10-around-30000-homes-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh cyclone toll rises to 10, around 30,000 homes destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, top local officials said Monday.<br \/>\n&#8220;They mostly died after they were crushed under fallen houses or collapsed walls,&#8221; said Showkat Ali, government administrator of Barisal district, where seven people died.<\/p>\n<p>Three others died in neighbouring districts, some by drowning. Fierce gales and crashing waves battered the coast as Cyclone Remal made landfall on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>By Monday afternoon, it had weakened into a storm, but winds and rain still lashed the coast. &#8220;Heavy rains unleashed by the cyclone are going on, and the wind speed is also high,&#8221; Ali added.<br \/>\nIn Khulan district, two people died, government administrator Helal Mahmud told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cyclone has damaged more than 123,000 homes in the division, and among them some 31,000 homes were completely damaged,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another person died in Chittagong, where &#8220;more than 40,000 people are still in cyclone shelters due to heavy rains and strong wind&#8221;, administrator Tofael Islam told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Power was knocked out to more than 12.5 million people, said Biswanath Sikder, chief engineer of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, the country&#8217;s largest state-run power distribution company<br \/>\n&#8220;We will resume power supply after the cyclone situation improves,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, top local officials said Monday. &#8220;They mostly died after they were crushed under fallen houses or collapsed walls,&#8221; said Showkat Ali, government administrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}