KHULNA PROVINCE
More than 115,000 flee as Cyclone Remal approaches Bangladesh
Cyclones have killed hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh in recent decades, but the number of superstorms hitting its densely populated coast has increased sharply -- from one a year to as many as three -- due to the impact of climate change.
Thousands flee as cyclone barrels towards Bangladesh
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis left their coastal villages Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepared for the expected landfall of an intense cyclone, officials said. "Our plan is to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from unsafe and vulnerable homes to the cyclone shelters," the government's disaster management secretary Kamrul Hasan told AFP. The authorities have mobilised tens of thousands of volunteers to alert people to the danger.
Waiting List: Hindu refugees' hope of nurturing Indian citizenship
They call themselves Indian but none of them have Indian citizenship.
