Warnings unheeded Ershad
NZPA-AP Dhaka Bangladesh’s President, Lieutenant-General Hossain Ershad, said yesterday that people had ignored adequate Government warnings about the mammoth hurricane in the Bay of Bengal and stayed on their land until it hit. “The warning was there. But they, didn’t want to leave. ’ They had their chickens, their homes,” he said. General Ershad said that probably a little over 10,000 people were killed in the winds and tidal waves that raked Urir Char and other islands in the bay and a 96km stretch along Bangladesh’s southern coastline. Asked if more foreign aid was needed, General Ershad said that the world had responded very well, and that the country now needed “their blessings and good will.” The relief operation, he said, was “under control.”
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