Barisal, Bangladesh by Sam JAHAN At least one person was killed and hundreds of thousands were evacuated Monday from the path of a cyclone careening towards densely populated, low-lying Bangladesh, according to officials. About 33,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, controversially relocated to a storm-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, were advised to remain indoors. Cyclones — the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the Northwest Pacific — […]
Bangladesh evacuates hundreds of thousands ahead of cyclone
