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One Mln Bangladesh Cyclone Survivors Await Homes - Oxfam [1]

Over a million people are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease than before, almost one year after cyclone Sidr ravaged parts of Bangladesh, Oxfam said on Wednesday.

Cyclone Sidr, the country's worst cyclone since 1991, ripped through over a dozen coastal districts on Nov. 15 last year, killing more than 3,300 people and displacing millions.

Publication Date: 
13/11/2008
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
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Cyclones [3], Bangladesh [4]
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