Cyclone kills hundreds in Bangladesh

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Aid workers struggled to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that slammed into the coast with 240-kmph winds, killing hundreds of people, savaging waterfront towns and villages and plunging much of the country into darkness.

Rescuers struggled through washed-out roads and areas blocked by wind-blown debris to get water and emergency food supplies to people stranded by floodwaters from Tropical Cyclone Sidr, witnesses said. The winds wreaked havoc on the country`s electricity and telephone lines, affecting even areas that were spared a direct hit by the storm, and leaving the full extent of the death and destruction unclear. Even after 24 hours after the cyclone made landfall, officials were still struggling to get reports from many of the worst hit districts.

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