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United News said it had reporters deployed across the cyclone region. Cyclone Sidr, with sustained winds of at least 131 mph (210 kph), made landfall Thursday night along the western coast of ...

Cyclone Sidr struck south east Bangladesh turning millions of lives upside down and killing thousands. Many survivors were left struggling for basic necessities such as tents, rice, drinking water ...

In 1991 Cyclone Marian killed 140,000. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr flattened 565,000 homes, but a warning system and fortified shelters helped limit deaths to 3,500. Today restoring coastal mangroves and ...

As the cyclone neared landfall Thursday night ... is extremely susceptible to the storm surge Sidr is expected to bring. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department estimated Thursday that Sidr ...