CYCLONE IN PAKISTAN
Death Toll Of 1000 (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) KARACHI, December 21. A maximum of 1000 people died in last Wednesday’s 100 miles an hour cyclone which devastated the East Pakistan coast, a senior Red Cross official said today. Some reports put the death toll as high as 25,000 as the hurricane carved a swathe of destruction along the Chitta-gong-Cox’s Bazar coastal strip. The Red Cross spokesman, Mr Justice Sikdduky, chairman of the East Pakistan Red Cross Society, just returned from a tour of the stricken region, said some quarter million people had been hit by the cyclone and between 35,000 and 50,000 needed immediate relief.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 13
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