Siddique Islam (National News Service) Dhaka, Wednesday, May 18: A tropical storm ravaged northwestern Bangladesh on last Tuesday, killing at least 27 people and capsizing a launch with 200 passengers on board near Aricha in Manikganj district.
The severe storm left a trail of devastation and injured about 1,000 others in different districts including Natore, Rajshai, Naogaon, Manikganj, Sherpur, Habiganj and Pabna.
A launch -- MV Raipur - capsized near Aricha ghat with 200 passengers on board at about 4.30pm amidst high wind in the river Jamuna while the nor'wester also hit south-western Meherpur district badly.
It has been reported that 15 people were killed alone in Natore while 8 in Rajshahi, one each in Naogaon, Chapainwabganj, Habiganj and Nilphamari.
Nor’wester damaged hundreds of thatched houses and standing crops on a vast expanse of land, and uprooted numerous trees, reports said, adding that hundreds of people were forced to stay under the open sky.
In the capital Dhaka, five people, including a rickshaw puller, were injured during the nor'wester.
Four of them were wounded at Eskaton under Ramna thana (Ramna Police Station) when a boundary wall, adjacent to their tin-shed building, collapsed. The rickshaw puller was injured when a tree fell on him near Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). (End/si)
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"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |