Hurricane Sidr: 6 decomposed bodies found in Bagerhat

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Decomposed bodies of six persons including four children, killed by Cyclone Sidr, were recovered from Sharonkhola upazila of Bagerhat yesterday, raising the upazila’s death toll to 653.

With yesterday’s recovery the total death toll rose to 3,246 at 3:00pm, the disaster management control room sources said.

Witnesses said local people recovered the unidentified bodies from the paddy fields in Tafalbari and Bokultala under the upazila.

Sources in the office of the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) said 300 residents of the upazila are still missing. The local residents said many decomposed bodies are still floating in the canals there. Bodies of a total of 763 people were recovered since Sidr had hit the country.

Meanwhile, our correspondent from Satkhira reported yesterday that relatives of missing fishermen who had gone to catch fish in the Bay of Bengal before the cyclone made landfall in the south and south-western coastal region of the country on November 15, still did not have any news of them.

At least 125 fishermen who had gone to Dublarchar to catch fish in the Bay of Bengal on October 20 just like in the previous years, were still missing yesterday, Rabin Haldar, a fish trader who had survived the cyclone and returned back to his village home at Malopara under Tala upazila, said.

Helpless relatives of the missing are struggling to come to terms with their losses as the bodies of other cyclone victims were brought back to neighbouring villages since the deadly storm.

The missing fishermen of Malopara are Nittya Haldar, Niranjan Haldar, Sujit Haldar, Prahllad Haldar, Govinda Haldar, Biswajit, Dipok, Ranajit and others, and Abdul Bari, Aslam, Abdul Mannan, Tayebur Rahman, Majibar Rahman and Babul of village Chakla under Assassuni upazila.

The air of Malopara, Pratapnagar union under Assassuni, and Burigoalini, Gabura, Kailkhali and Munshiganj unions under Shyamnagar upazila is thick with grief as the relatives of missing fishermen still do not know about the whereabouts of the missing.

Bodies of 19 fishermen of the district were brought back to the villages.

On contact, Satkhira Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Kefayetullah said they are getting information about the missing fishermen from the villages but did not mention the exact figure, as according to him, they are still collecting data.

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