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The Bangladesh Nargis
cyclone of 1991
left 138,000 One of the most destructive cyclones, Cyclone Nargis, struck Myanmar in
people dead May 2008. As it passed Sri Lanka, it caused heavy flooding and landslides,
and ten million in which thirty-five thousand people were affected. In Bangladesh, farmers
homeless.
were asked by the government to harvest the rice quickly. Cyclone
Sidr had destroyed their crops the previous year and they did
not want to lose the crop again. In Myanmar, Cyclone
Nargis killed almost eighty thousand people. Over fifty-
five thousand were reported missing.

Cyclone Nargis was one of the
most destructive cyclones to
strike Myanmar.

Fifteen hundred villages simply disappeared
in the flooding waters during the super
cyclone of Orissa in 1999.

I didn’t get this strong
lifting dumbbells!

Did you know?

When the cyclone of
1991 in Bangladesh hit
Chittagong harbour, it

picked up a hundred-
tonne crane and smashed

it on a bridge, which
broke into two!

the worldÊs largest mangrove forest.