Typhoon Devastates East Pakistan
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Environmental Issues, Disasters, Natural Phenomena
- Subcategories: Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Weather
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: South Asia, Bangladesh
- Date: November 12, 1970
Article abstract: Massive storm waves generated by a typhoon in the Bay of Bengal swept over low-lying islands and shoreline in the Ganges Delta, killing between three hundred thousand and five hundred thousand people in the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century.
Summary of Event
On the night of November 11, 1970, three and a half million people living on low-lying islands and shoreline in the fertile deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers retired for the night, unaware that a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions threatened them....
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