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Thursday May 16 | WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh

Cyclone Mahasen lashes Bangladesh coast

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen jogged northward Thursday prior to striking the coast of Bangladesh, averting the widespread disaster that government authorities had prepared for.

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Thursday May 16 | CNN

Cyclone lashes Bangladesh coast, displaces thousands

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen lashed the coast of Bangladesh with heavy rain Thursday, bringing the risk of flooding and landslides to densely populated, low-lying communities.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

Manila Bulletin

Bangladesh toll hits 273 as US vows to help crackdown

Bangladeshi rescuers pulled dozens more people alive from a razed garment factory building Friday as the US pressed for a crackdown on deadly negligence of safety norms in the clothing industry.

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Wed Apr 10, 2013

The Straits Times

30 missing as bus plunges into Bangladesh river

About 30 people were feared drowned after an overcrowded bus plunged into a deep river in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, police said.

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