Bangladesh stories
Altaf Hossain Hawladar, 50, clung to a tree with his family after their house collapsed in the floodwaters.
Abdul Gani Hawladar, 75, farmer and basket weaver, crawled to safety with his family as trees fell around them.
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Hawa Begum, 22, lost all 18 of her hens and one of her two goats in the cyclone. She says that the family is surviving on aid packages from ActionAid.
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Mosammet Nurjahan Begum, 40, didn't go to the cyclone shelter. When the house collapsed her mother-in-law was trapped under the falling debris.
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Mohammed Salam Hawladar, 40, tied his children to trees, high above the water, but his six year old son Riddoy was washed away.
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Sixty-year-old Amena Khatun isn’t sure how she’s still alive. When the cyclone struck, a pillar fell across her body trapping her for more than eight hours.
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On the night of the cyclone, Jahanara Begum, 30, took the family to a neighbour’s house in Tafalbari but the river swept in, tearing away her children and husband.
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Abdul Khalek, 72, climbed up inside the roof of his local mosque to shelter from the cyclone.
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photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
photo : ©Andrew Biraj/ Panos/ ActionAid
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