{"id":60390,"date":"2024-05-28T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/cyclone-remal-tears-through-bangladesh-killing-at-least-13\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:32:03","slug":"cyclone-remal-tears-through-bangladesh-killing-at-least-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/cyclone-remal-tears-through-bangladesh-killing-at-least-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Remal Tears Through Bangladesh, Killing at Least 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/28\/multimedia\/28bangladesh-cyclone-gzfl\/28bangladesh-cyclone-gzfl-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cyclone Remal Tears Through Bangladesh, Killing at Least 13\" title=\"Cyclone Remal Tears Through Bangladesh, Killing at Least 13\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least 13 people were killed and millions were left without power in Bangladesh after Cyclone Remal, the first tropical storm of the season, hit the country and neighboring eastern India on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Remal, which had measured winds of over 70 miles per hour, left a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and damaging power lines throughout the region, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The storm damaged or destroyed more than 35,000 homes across the coastal areas of Bangladesh, affecting about 3.5 million people, according to officials. More than 13 million people there lost electricity on Monday evening, according to power ministry officials. The South Asian country has a population of 170 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The storm also caused power outages and damaged homes in the Indian state of West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The storm hit after weeks of intense heat in the region, with temperatures reaching about 104 Fahrenheit, or 40 Celsius. Remal made landfall near Bangladesh\u2019s southern port of Mongla and the neighboring Sagar Islands of India around 9 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Around a million people were evacuated from Bangladesh\u2019s coastal villages before the storm hit. Most of those villages were flooded, leaving millions of people vulnerable, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs Cyclone Remal hits the coastal areas of Bangladesh, over 8.4 million people, including 3.2 million children, are at high health, nutrition, sanitation and safety risks,\u201d Sheldon Yett, a UNICEF representative to Bangladesh, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bangladesh\u2019s inland capital, Dhaka was hit with heavy rain and strong winds. The storm disrupted flights at Shah Amanat International Airport in southeastern Bangladesh and at Kolkata Airport in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By Tuesday, the storm had weakened, but meteorologists in Bangladesh and India warned that heavy rain and strong winds could continue for a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bangladesh has been hit with several violent storms in recent years. Last May, a severe cyclone, Mocha, hit Bangladesh and Myanmar and left several people dead. The storm caused widespread damage in the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps in Cox\u2019s Bazar, destroying over 3,000 shanties and learning centers made of bamboo slats and plastic tarpaulin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Philippines has also seen its first tropical storm of the season. Typhoon Ewiniar hit the island nation early Saturday morning. The Office of Civil Defense reported Monday that there were seven casualties from the storm. The storm had gusts of over 40 miles per hour, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Saif Hasnat<!-- --> and <!-- -->Suhasini Raj<!-- --> contributed to reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/cyclone-remal-bangladesh-india.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 people were killed and millions were left without power in Bangladesh after Cyclone Remal, the first tropical storm of the season, hit the country and neighboring eastern India on Sunday. Remal, which had measured winds of over 70 miles per hour, left a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and damaging power lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/28\/multimedia\/28bangladesh-cyclone-gzfl\/28bangladesh-cyclone-gzfl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5271,53827,4373,55897,5084],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60392,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60390\/revisions\/60392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}