Villagers in Aila-hit southern regions scramble to survive

May 31, 2009

The Daily Star, May 31, 2009

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Cyclone Aila has battered the lives of people in the southern region of the country. Survivors who cheated death are now in dire need of food, water and shelter as they come to terms with their losses. Photos by Anisur Rahman from Shyamnagar upazila. (1) A woman from Jhapa village in Padmapukur union shows journalists the paddy — now rotting — destroyed in the cyclone. (2) A homeless couple eats rice distributed from a relief point at Buri Goalini village. (3) An elderly survivor from Dumuria village, Daud Ali Gazi, gestures with his hand as he describes how he lost everything in the cyclone. (4) Lucky survivors make their way out from Buri Goalini village with whatever they could salvage, looking for safer grounds. (5) People in Atulia crowd a van (not in picture) that has brought drinking water for the survivors. (6) A cow is tied in front of the makeshift shack of its owners on top of a river embankment. (7) With the few belongings she could save, Shahanara Begum has taken shelter with her young children at an office building in Atulia union. (8) Villagers push a tractor through the water to take it to higher land.

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Birds eye view: southwest Bangladesh after the cyclone

May 29, 2009

Image: Iftekhar Mahmud

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Labonyabati River

May 8, 2009

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Bhadra, river comatose

May 8, 2009

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Hamkura: Images of a dead river

May 8, 2009

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