"Cyclone Lashes Bangladesh Killing Nine, Flooding Low-Lying Areas"

"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.

"It was terrible, it looked like the sea was coming to grab us," Mizanur Rahman, a resident of Bhola district, told Reuters after communications were restored in his neighbourhood."

Ruma Paul reports for Reuters October 25, 2022.