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Bangladesh is relocating around 2 million people from its coastal areas ahead of cyclone Roanu’s anticipated landfall on Saturday evening, an event that also has authorities in neighbouring India and Myanmar on edge.
The cyclonic storm brought heavy rains this week in Sri Lanka, triggering two landslides that were feared to have killed around 150 people and forced more than 223,000 persons from their homes.
“Low-lying areas of [Bangladesh’s] coastal districts … are likely to be inundated by a storm surge of four to five feet height above normal astronomical tide,” the country’s weather office said on its website.
India’s meteorological department said on Friday evening the storm was likely to move along the country’s east coast and intensify into a severe cyclone in the next 24 hours, before crossing the south Bangladesh coast as a cyclonic storm with lesser intensity.
Bangladesh’s disaster ministry secretary, Mohammad Shah Kamal, told reporters the country had already taken “all sorts of steps” including moving people away from the eye of the storm. India’s Andhra Pradesh state has also moved some people from low-lying areas.
Bangladesh, a poor South Asian country, has been one of the worst victims of nature’s fury in recent years. More than 3,000 people were killed by cyclone Sidr in 2007 and around 200 lives were lost to cyclone Aila in 2009.
Courtesy of theguardian.com
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