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A tornado is a violent, rotating Other big tornadoes …
column of air, which is in contact
with the surface of the earth, as After the US, UK, and
well as with the clouds. Canada, Bangladesh
experiences the
maximum number of
tornadoes. Tornadoes
are more disastrous
here because of higher
population, poor quality
of construction, and
poverty. The world’s
deadliest tornado blew
into the Manikganj district
of Bangladesh on 26 April,
1989. The tornado was about
a kilometre and a half wide
and had an eighty-kilometre-long
path running through the cities of
Daulatpur and Saturia. It killed
about thirteen hundred people,
injured twelve thousand, and
left more than eighty thousand
homeless. On the path of the
tornado and around it, not a single
building or tree was left intact.
A tornado is a violent, rotating Other big tornadoes …
column of air, which is in contact
with the surface of the earth, as After the US, UK, and
well as with the clouds. Canada, Bangladesh
experiences the
maximum number of
tornadoes. Tornadoes
are more disastrous
here because of higher
population, poor quality
of construction, and
poverty. The world’s
deadliest tornado blew
into the Manikganj district
of Bangladesh on 26 April,
1989. The tornado was about
a kilometre and a half wide
and had an eighty-kilometre-long
path running through the cities of
Daulatpur and Saturia. It killed
about thirteen hundred people,
injured twelve thousand, and
left more than eighty thousand
homeless. On the path of the
tornado and around it, not a single
building or tree was left intact.
