Notes: (Category-IV storm with gusts of up to 280 kmph)

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Bangladesh cyclone death toll reaches 1,100

Last updated : Saturday, 17 November , 2007, 00:51

Dhaka: Aid workers struggled to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that slammed into the coast with 240-kmph winds, killing at least 1,100 people, savaging waterfront towns and villages and plunging much of the country into darkness, a Bangladeshi news agency said on Friday.

The cyclone roared across the country's southwestern coast late Thursday with driving rain and high waves, leveling thousands of flimsy huts, uprooting trees, and destroying crops and fish farms in 15 coastal districts, officials and witnesses said.

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DHAKA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a super cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll neared 1,900 on Sunday and a government official declared the disaster "a national calamity".

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