Six dead, 500,000 flee as Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh
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May 21, 2016
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Cyclone Roanu struck the Bangladesh coast on
Saturday killing six people and forcing hundreds of thousands more to flee
their homes as the storm unleashed strong winds and heavy downpours.
Authorities
took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just
after noon local time, packing winds as strong as 88 kilometres per hour.“It
has struck the southern coastal areas of Barisal and Chittagong with a wind
speed of 62-88 kilometres per hour,” Omar Faruq, a government meterological
department official told AFP.