Cyclone hits Bangladesh
; (N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) DACCA, Nov. 29. . The Prime Minister of 'Bangladesh (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) mobilised a giant icivilian and military relief .force today to help' victims lof a cyclone that swept ; across the south-east coast [of Bangladesh. The 90 mile-an-hour winds! and 10ft tidal waves battered; the coast yesterday, severely { damaging the ’ famine-! wracked country’s precarious! rice crop.
Initial reports said that at •least five people died in the storm, which submerged lowi lying coastal areas near the port of Chittagong and offshore islands*
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33706, 2 December 1974, Page 26
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