Fierce gales and crashing waves battered the coast as Cyclone 'Remal' made landfall on Sunday night. It had eased by Monday afternoon, but winds and rain still whipped residents as they picked through the wreckage of their houses.Villages had been swamped by storm surges, tin roofs had been ripped off, trees uprooted and powerlines cut, said an Agence France-Presse reporter in the affected area.
woman stands inside her damaged house after Cyclone ‘Remal’ made landfall near a beach in the town of Kuakata, southern Bangladesh, on May 27, 2024. AFP PHOTO'Heavy rains unleashed by the cyclone are going on, and the wind speed is also high,' said Showkat Ali, government administrator of south-central Barisal district, where seven people died.'They mostly died after they were crushed under fallen houses or collapsed walls,' he told AFP.