Cyclone Sidr Kills 35o in Bangladesh - New York Times

Cyclone Sidr Kills 35o in Bangladesh - New York Times: "Packing winds of over 100 miles an hour, the furious cyclone that swept across the low-lying watery edges of southern Bangladesh late Thursday downed trees, sent mobile telephone towers crashing and swept away mud and thatch homes.

The government's acting secretary for disaster management, Ayub Mian, told reporters at a press conference in Dhaka today that at least 350 people had been killed by Cyclone Sidr, as it is called, while a private television station estimated the death toll to have crossed 500 [...]"