WORLD : 500 Killed, Thousands Injured as Tornado Slams Central Bangladesh
A strong tornado swept through central Bangladesh, killing at least 500 people, injuring thousands and strewing areas with bodies and animal carcasses, officials and witnesses said today.
Hundreds of people were missing after the Wednesday night storm flattened houses and crops in a 60-square-mile area north of Dhaka.
Villages were reduced to wreckage on both sides of a five-mile highway between Manikganj and Shaturia. In some places not a single building remained.
Twisted corrugated iron roofs hung from trees, loaded trucks were blown more than 500 yards, electricity pylons and trees lay twisted on the ground.
In Shaturia village, human bodies and animal carcasses lay side by side.
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