Two dead as cyclone batters Bangladesh and India

Commuters travel on a motorised three-wheeler along a road as rain clouds loom over the sky, due to the effect of cyclone Remal, in Kolkata on May 26, 2024. PATUAKHALI: Fierce gales and crashing waves smashed into the low-lying coast of Bangladesh and India on Monday , as anTwo people have been killed since Cyclone Remal made landfall on Sunday night, Kamrul Hasan, secretary of Bangladesh 's disaster management ministry, told AFP.

Cyclones have killed hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh in recent decades, but the number of superstorms hitting its densely populated coast has increased sharply, from one a year to as many as three, due to the impact of climate change. Most of Bangladesh's coastal areas are just a metre or two above sea level and high storm surges can devastate villages.Hasan, from the disaster management ministry, told AFP, said there were no immediate reports of damages, but said"embankments in several places have been breached or submerged, inundating some coastal areas".

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