Nor'wester adds to sufferings of Aila-hit people
One killed, 500 houses damaged in Dakope
Nor'wester lashed entire Dakope upazila on Wednesday night killing one person, damaging over 500 houses and uprooting a large number of trees.
A fisherman was killed by lightning. He was identified as Shajahan Ali of Keorhakhali village of Sutarkhali union.
According to UNO Daulatuzzaman, over 500 houses, besides shops, schools and madrasas in several villages of all nine unions under the upazila, were badly damaged by the nor'wester that lashed from 7:00 pm till 9:00 pm.
The storm also caused extensive damage to standing crops and added to the sufferings of hundreds of homeless Aila-hit people staying in makeshift camps, said upazila chairman Sheikh Abul Hossain.
The super cyclone left a trail of devastation in the area just two years ago.
The two-hour long nor'wester coupled with incessant rain and lightning on Wednesday caused huge water-logging in different places of the upazila disrupting normal life.
Many makeshift camps were blown away forcing many homeless people to move to safer places, officials said.
Meanwhile, leaders of 'Aila Durgato Shanghati Mancha' have damanded formation of a strong monitoring cell to look into the work for implementation of the proposed projects worth Tk 100 crore in the Aila-hit area.
They made this demand issuing a press release on Wednesday night.
The Mancha was formed last year to stand by the distressed people who were rendered homeless by Aila at Dakope and Koira upazilas of Khulna district, Shyamnagar and Ashashuni upazilas of Satkhira district on May 25 in 2009.
Leaders of this newly formed platform have further demanded adequate allocation of fund in the next national budget for implementation of different ongoing and upcoming projects undertaken for infrastructural development of Aila affected places.
They also demanded exemplary punishment to those responsible for corruption and nepotism in the affairs of project work.
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