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Myanmar cyclone claims 22,500 lives, 41,000 missing |
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Nearly 22,500 people have been killed and 41,000 are still missing after cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta where entire villages have been washed away One million people were left homeless. The cyclone h was Asia’s most devastating one since 1991 when a storm killed 142,000 in neighbouring Bangladesh. Packed winds of over 120 miles per hour bore down from the Bay of Bengal to hit the Myanmar coast, sending the sea surging as much as 12 feet. This was probably the worst d ...
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