New storm lashes Bangladesh<\/p>\n
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuter): A storm lashed coastal
\nBangladesh yesterday, hampering disaster relief efforts just days
\nafter a cyclone killed at least 105 people and made more than one
\nmillion homeless, officials said.<\/p>\n
Strong winds and heavy rain blasted Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar
\nresort and nearby islands in a lower-key rerun of Monday's
\ndisaster.<\/p>\n
Unofficial sources put the feared death toll from the cyclone
\nat nearly 1,000 with hundreds of fishermen still missing in the
\nBay of Bengal. Sources also reported some deaths from diarrhea,
\nwhich was spreading among those left homeless.<\/p>\n
Officials said yesterday's 75 kilometer-per-hour storm swept
\nareas still recovering from the cyclone, dumping nearly 80 mm of
\nrain on and around Cox's Bazar and adding to the miseries of
\nthousands of families sleeping outside.<\/p>\n
The high winds blew away many houses which were being rebuilt
\nfollowing Monday's storm, they said.<\/p>\n
Nearly 150 fishermen missing at sea for four days returned to
\ntheir island homes Thursday night, but the fate of 600 others was
\nstill not known, fishing community leaders said.<\/p>\n
\"We only hope they all would come back,\" said Kabir Ahmed,
\nleader of Mechanized Fishing Boats Association in Cox's Bazar.<\/p>\n
Residents of Cox's Bazar and islanders told reporters that the
\nmost affected areas had been without relief supplies till
\nThursday and that electricity was still out.<\/p>\n
The state-run Dainik Bangla newspaper said yesterday that 14
\npeople had died as diarrhea spread in cyclone-battered areas.<\/p>\n
Health officials in Chittagong declined to confirm the deaths
\nbut said around 400 medical teams had been deployed in coastal
\nareas to try to prevent disease.<\/p>\n
\"After giving first aid to cyclone victims they are now mainly
\nworking against disease,\" said Dr. Mazharul Islam, deputy civil
\nsurgeon of Chittagong.<\/p>\n
Unofficial sources said yesterday that about 10,000 people had
\ncontracted diarrhea and at least 15 had died. Hospitals in
\nChittagong and Cox's Bazar had received about 1,000 patients
\nsuffering from diarrhea since Monday, doctors told reporters.<\/p>\n
\"Scattered incidents of diarrhoeal attack are very common in
\nmany areas during this time of the year,\" one Chittagong hill
\nofficial said.<\/p>\n
\"People are not very health conscious and they sometimes drink
\nwater from derelict sources and eat rubbish (which cause the
\ndisease),\" he said.<\/p>\n
Jawadul Karim, press secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh
\nHasina, told reporters Thursday that 105 people had so far been
\nconfirmed dead after the cyclone,<\/p>",
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