KHULNA, Bangladesh: The Bay of Bengal's fiercest cyclone this century was bearing down on millions of people in eastern India and Bangladesh on ...
A volunteer urges residents to evacuate to shelters ahead of the expected landfall of Super Cyclone Amphan in Khulna, Bangladesh. KHULNA, Bangladesh: The Bay of Bengal's fiercest cyclone this century was bearing down on millions of people in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday , with forecasts of a potentially devastating and deadly storm surge.
Out at sea the vast weather system visible from space packed winds of up to 240 kilometres per hour, the equivalent of a category four hurricane. Storm surges can force a wall of water to cascade several kilometres inland, and are often responsible for massive loss of life during the most severe cyclones.Bangladesh's low-lying coast, home to 30 million people, and India's east are regularly battered by cyclones that have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in recent decades.
But Bangladesh authorities still fear that Amphan will be the most powerful storm front since Cyclone Sidr devastated the country in 2007, killing about 3,500 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. The Catholic Relief Services aid group said people faced"an impossible choice" of braving the cyclone by staying put, or risking coronavirus infection in a shelter.
The first coronavirus cases were reported there last week, and by Tuesday there were six confirmed infections.
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