(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – The Bangladeshi navy says it is searching for dozens of fishermen still missing after a powerful storm.
Cyclone Mora, which brought high winds and torrential rain, killed seven people and destroyed thousands of homes when it hit on Tuesday.
The areas around Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong, along the border with Myanmar, bore the brunt of the storm.
Camps on the border housing thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were badly damaged.
Fishing vessels were ordered back to port as the storm approached, but a local fishing industry representative said about 150 people were missing.
The Bangladeshi navy said it had sent 15 ships to search for survivors and had so far rescued at least 20 fishermen.
The Indian navy picked up 33 survivors on Wednesday but Indian officials said it was not clear whether they came from vessels that had sunk or from huts washed into the sea.
