Cyclone Deaths Now Estimated At 10,000

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 11

Cyclone Deaths Now Estimated At 10,000

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CHITTAGONG (East Pakistan), June I

The 15-hour cyclone which ripped through the Bay of Bengal coastal area of East Pakistan killed more than 10,000 people, it was officially estimated today.

Pakis’an s Education Minster iMr Fazlul Quartet Ch- wdhuryi gave the figure after a three-hour an and -oad tour oi the area dev-asta-ed by tidal waves and winds gusting to 130 mpn He mid reo-rtet total dam age would be ‘‘lo or 20 •nW that caused by the 1980 cvelone whi h killed about 14<W0 people and des ‘roved or damaged 900 000 homes

Reports trickling m from

the devastated area round Cox’s Bazaar. 80 mdee along the Bay of Benga coast from the stricken port city of Chittagong say the death -oil there has mounted to WOO The official figure for the area stood at 3000

Nothing has vet been neard from several thickly populated offshore islands About 400.000 person* in one are® with a population of 500.000 were estimated to have had their homes badly

damaged or destroyed About 5000 small boats in the »re’ we-e sunk

The cyclone battered the Bay of Bengal coastal area for 15 hours on Wednesday The Associated Press of Pakistan said vesterday casualty figure* were expected to “swell substantially” a# reports wme in from Bo'ated areas The Pakistan Army is carrying out relief work and mass inoculation* agains' epidemics.