Staff Reporter :
National Disaster Response Coordination Centre (NDRCC). The government on Sunday reviewed its statistics on cyclone Fani’s devastation, raising the extent of damaged crop to over 1.55 lakh acres.
Additionally, over 21,000 houses were damaged during the cyclone that “weakened” before entering Bangladesh through West Bengal in India.
According to National Disaster Response Centre (NDRCC), among them, 1,830 acres of cropland and 2,363 houses were completely destroyed in the cyclone.
The damage calculation was a report from 26 south-western and western districts of Bangladesh, it added.
Official casualty toll in the storm stayed at five persons while over 830 people injured in Bhola, Noakhali, Lakshmipur and Barguna.
A total of 59 villages have been flooded with rifts appearing along nearly 22 kilometres of embankments along various rivers in the final review.
During the cyclone, a total of over 16 lakh people were sheltered in the cyclone centres.
