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Bangladesh Toll Tops 1,500
World | November 17, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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A woman who lost her home in Barisal weeps amid the devastation of the cyclone. Photo by Getty Images
More than 1,500 people are now known to have died after a powerful cyclone ripped through southern and central Bangladesh, officials have said.
The government announced that 1,595 bodies had been recovered so far and that the toll was expected to rise.
Rescuers are trying to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors but debris and floods are hampering their efforts.
Cyclone Sidr destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes, brought down power lines and wiped out vital crops.
"We are expecting that thousands of dead bodies may be found within a few days," Shekhar Chandra Das, deputy head of the government's disaster management office, told AFP.
"We have not been able to collect information about casualties in many remote and impassable places due to the disruption to communications," he said.
The government announced that 1,595 bodies had been recovered so far and that the toll was expected to rise.
Rescuers are trying to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors but debris and floods are hampering their efforts.
Cyclone Sidr destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes, brought down power lines and wiped out vital crops.
"We are expecting that thousands of dead bodies may be found within a few days," Shekhar Chandra Das, deputy head of the government's disaster management office, told AFP.
"We have not been able to collect information about casualties in many remote and impassable places due to the disruption to communications," he said.
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