<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">At least 25 people died in nine districts across Bangladesh as the cyclone Sitrang made landfall and crossed Barishal-Chattogram coast on Monday midnight, leaving a trail of destruction.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">According to reports from UNB correspondents from Chattogram. Cumilla, Narail, Sirajganj, Bhola, Barguna, Munshiganj, Noakhali and Gopalganj, most of the casualties happened because of falling of trees since Monday morning as Bangladesh experienced moderate to heavy rains throughout the day.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Chattogram, bodies of eight workers, who went missing on Monday night after a dredger sank in the Bay of Bengal, were recovered from the sea off the coast of Mirsarai on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Five of the deceased were identified as Mahmud Molla, Alamin, Imam Molla, Abul Bashar and Tarek. They were residents of Patuakhali district.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The sand lifting dredger--Saikat-2--was anchored, with the eight workers on board, in the sea around 1000 feet away from the embankment in Bashundhara area of the upazila. But it sank when the storm triggered by Cyclone Sitrang intensified around 10 pm on Monday, said Md Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mirsarai Police Station.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Mirsarai police and fire service divers recovered the bodies from the sunken dredger around 2pm on Tuesday, the OC added.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">At Sitakunda in Chattogram, the body of a seven-month-old girl child was recovered from a shipyard in the Bay of Bengal near the Kadamarsul area on Tuesday morning, said Mahbub, sub-inspector (SI) of Kumira Naval Police.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The body of the child was swept into the shipyard by the strong tide of the sea, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The body was later sent to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) morgue, the SI said.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Munshiganj, a 28-year-old woman and her four-year-old daughter were killed when a huge tree collapsed on them while they were asleep on Monday night at Kanakshar village in Louhajang upazila of the district.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The deceased were identified as Asma Akter, wife of Abdur Razzak and Sumaiya Akter, said additional superintendent Munshiganj Police Yeasmin Ferdous.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Razzak was also injured during the incident. He was taken to Dhaka for better treatment.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Noakhali, a one-year-old girl was killed and her mother was injured when a tree collapsed on them at Habibia village in Subarnachar upazila of the district early Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The deceased was identified as Sneha, daughter of Abdullah of the village.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Debopriyo Das, officer-in-charge of Charjabbar Police Station, said the tree collapsed on their house when Amena Begum, 25 and her daughter Sneha were sleeping around 3 am during the storm.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Cumilla’s Nangalkot upazila, a couple and their four-year-old daughter died after a huge tree fell on their house at Hesakhal area on Monday night. They were asleep when it happened.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">MD. Raihan Mehbub, Nangalkot Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), said police rushed to the scene after the incident took place killing Nizam Uddin , his wife Sharmin Akter Shathi and their daughter Nusrat Akter Liza.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The incident occurred around 10 pm when the wind speed was 60 kmph in Cumilla as the cyclone was making landfall, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A 35-year-old woman--Morzina Begum--was first reported to be dead as a tree fell on her head at Lohagara upazila complex in Narail around 11 am on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Morzina hailing from Bagerhat used to work as a maid at Rajpur village in the upazila, said Md Nasir Uddin, Officer-in-Charge of Lohagara Police Station.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">During the incident her 11-year-old son was with her, but he survived, said the OC.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Sirajganj sadar upazila, a mother and her son died as their boat sank in a canal of Jamuna River on Monday night.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The deceased were identified as Ayesha Siddka, 30, wife of Khokon Sheikh from Purbo Mohonpur village, and her son Arafat Rahman, 5, said Mosaddek Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Bangabandhu Bridge West Police Station.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Ayesha’s husband and two other children were rescued from the scene of the accident, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">They were traveling home through the canal on a boat around 8 pm Monday when it capsized amid bad weather. Arafat died at the scene while Aysha was declared dead after being taken to a hospital, said the OC.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Bhola, four people died at sadar, Doulatkhan, Lalmohan and Char Fasson being crushed under trees and from drowning.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The deceased were identified as Mofijul Islam, 60, from sadar upazila, Bibi Khadiza, 20, from Doulatkhan upazila, Rabeya, 30, from Lalmohan upazila, and Monir, 30 from Char Fasson upazila, said Delwar Hossain, District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Mofizul died after a tree fell on his house on Monday night at Dhania union in sadar upazila and Bibi Khadiza also died being crushed under a tree. Monir was on a motorcycle when a tree branch fell, leaving him dead on the spot while Rabeya drowned.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Barguna sadar upazila a 110-year-old woman died while having dinner as a tree fell on her house at Sonakhali village.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">She was alone in the house and died instantly, said Humayun Kabir, local Union Parishad Chairman.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In Gopalganj district two women were crushed under trees at Tungipara upazila.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The deceased were Sharmin,25, wife of Rezaul from Patgati union and Rumisa, 65, wife of Hanna Talukder from Banshbaria union.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Sharmin died on Monday night as a tree fell on her at Panchkahania village during storm while Rumisa got crushed under a tree at her home at Dumuria village, said Minhazur Rahman, District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He said their families will get Tk 25,000 as assistance, Tk 6000 for rehabilitation and tin sheets. 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