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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Signs and Portents, part 177 |
| 2005-03-25 |
| DHAKA - Tropical storms sweeping across Bangladesh have killed at least 80 people over the past four days, officials said on Thursday. Most victims died under collapsed houses and uprooted trees in southern and western districts, disaster management officials said. Others died in lightning strikes, hail storms or sinking boats. "Storms continue to hit many places and we are getting reports of casualties and property damage every day," a disaster management official in Dhaka said. Around 1,000 people were injured and more than 15,000 people were left homeless by the storms, the first of the annual storm season, the officials said. Tropical outbursts kill hundreds of people in Bangladesh each summer and meteorology officials said frequent storms were likely through the summer season to the end of May.  |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Tropical outbursts kill hundreds of people in Bangladesh each summer.. "Tropical outbursts"?? Maybe the cops should be called in to quell them... ;) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-25 3:38:33 PM |