Of the deceased, four members of the same family died after a wall of their mud house collapsed amid heavy rains in Cox’s Bazar district, some 400 km southeast of the capital Dhaka, in the wee hours of Friday, Xinhua reported citing the local official sources.
Three more deaths caused by tree-related incidents were reported from the southeastern Chattogram and central Tangail districts.
The cyclone damaged crops in coastal districts where tens of thousands of people were evacuated to storm shelters.
Power supply snapped in coastal areas in Bangladesh on Friday after fierce winds uprooted electricity poles and left wires tangled with logs and twigs.
“A total of 25 trawlers carrying 300 fishermen have not returned home,” Golam Mostofa Chowdhury, president of the Barguna District Fishing Trawlers Owners Association, was quoted as saying in a report by local English newspaper New Age on Saturday.
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