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WEATHER REPORT
14 killed, 1,500 fishermen missing in Bangladesh storm
by Staff Writers
Dhaka (AFP) Oct 11, 2012


At least 14 people were killed and an estimated 1,500 fishermen are missing after tropical storms smashed into Bangladesh's southern coastal islands and districts early Thursday, police said.

Police said at least 1,500 mud, tin and straw-built houses were also levelled in the storms that swept Bhola, Hatiya and Sandwip Islands and half a dozen coastal districts after midnight Wednesday midnight.

At the worst-hit island of Hatiya, at least five people were killed after they were buried under their houses or hit by fallen trees, said local police chief Moktar Hossain. More than 1,000 houses were flattened.

"More than 100 fishing trawlers, each carrying at least 10 fishermen, have been missing since the storm," he told AFP, calling it one of the most powerful in decades.

Many fishermen are expected to have taken shelter in other remote islands in the Bay of Bengal or in the neighbouring Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.

In the past, many fishermen thought to be missing from storms returned home to coastal villages a week or two later.

Four people were killed in Bhola, three in Sandwip and two at Char Jabbar, police said.

The police chief of Bhola district, Bashir Ahmed, told AFP more than 500 fishermen were missing from the country's largest island and at least 500 mud and straw-built houses were levelled by the sudden storm.

Bangladesh's weather office forecast heavy rain in the coastal region and advised fishermen to approach the shore and take care. But there was no major storm warning.

"We only got the warning signal number three. But the storm was so powerful, the weather office should have hoisted the signal number seven or eight," said Ahmed, referring to the intensity of the storm in a scale of ten.

"It caught the fishermen and coastal people by surprise. Till now we haven't had any reports from the missing fishermen," he said.

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