Cyclone Lashes Bangladesh Killing at Least 9, Flooding Low-Lying Areas

Cyclone Lashes Bangladesh Killing at Least 9, Flooding Low-Lying Areas
People wade through a flooded street amid continuous rain before the Cyclone Sitrang hits the country in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 24, 2022. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
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DHAKA—A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and disrupting road, power, and communication links, officials said.

Mass evacuations before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall on the west coast helped save lives but the full extent of the casualties and damage would only be known after communications were fully restored, they said.