Millions of people were evacuated over the previous 48 hours as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, very severe cyclonic storm SIDR prepared to smash into Bangladesh’s shoreline with top winds reaching 240 k/h (149 miles per hour).The furious cyclone swept across the low-lying watery edges of southern Bangladesh late Thursday downed trees, sent cell phone towers crashing and swept away mud and thatch homes, leaving at least more than thousand dead. The Bay of Bengal has seen the world's deadliest tropical cyclones, and November is one of the region's most dangerous months. On November 12-13, 1970, a Category 4 cyclone struck Bangladesh, causing the greatest tropical cyclone disaster in world history. In 1991, a tropical storm claimed roughly 140,000 lives. Bangladeshi relief agencies have since developed early warning systems and storm shelters to help people evacuate before disaster strikes.
London-based Tropical Storm Risk said Sidr, was heading north towards the heavily populated southern coast and the capital, Dhaka. The Dhaka international airport suspended its operations. Communications with remote forest areas and offshore islands were temporarily cut off. Cyclone Sidr is expected to fizzle out on Saturday over India's northeastern state of Assam and just south of the mountain kingdom of Bhutan.
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