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Unbelievable tales of cyclone survivors
CHITTAGONG, May 19 : Some call it miracle, some take it as a mere chance and still some others accept it as a good luck or the almighty's mercy that helped many people survive the great deluge and severe cyclonic storrn of April 29. 1991.
Almost unbelievable stories are now heard from some of the survivors who cannot yet clearly recall how they passed through the ordeal. The stories of some survivors are many and varied. Their experiences are the bitterest one and they shudder in fear to recollect the nightmare.
BSS Special Correspondent Nazir Ahmed who met a number of survivors during the past few days came to know such unbelievable occurrences In Kutubdia. Banshkhall. Chakaria and other places.
Shrimp project worker Azhar All (27). of Ujantia of Chakaria was one of the three survivors of a group of eight project workers. On the fateful night they were staying in a hut adjacent to the project off Badarkhall. The owner of project was also staying In a separate hut nearby, he has remained untraced till now.
All said. "It was midnight, the cyclone was severe and in the twinkling of an eye the deluge came with unthinkable speed. The hut was uprooted and floating and all of us caught hold of the thatched roof. But the roof was torn apart and I did not know what happened to my other companions. I was about to drown, but an earthen jar was floating before me and I caught hold of it.”
All found himself in the morning on a big tree with its branches blown away by the cyclone. The tree was in Chakoria. almost ten miles away from the Badarkhali shrimp project. He was rescued by some relief workers.
A three-month-old baby was found on the coconut tree at a village in Banskhali upazila on the morning of April 29. Nobody knew how the baby climbed the coconut tree. It was rescued by the local people but no one knows whom the baby belongs to.
Eleven-year-old Jasim of Devpahar. Chittagong, went to Kutubdia with a bridal party of 19 people. Fifty per cent members of the bridal party are missing or dead. Jasim caught hold of a log of wood and was washed to Llshia of Chakoria. Jasim joined his parents with the memory of April 29 nightmare.
The Mohsin Aulia Dargah in Anwara was not affected by cyclone though it has thatched roof. The Charpir Aulia Dargah at Rustem hat in Barosa union of Anwara upazila also remained intact People wonder to see both the Dargahs remaining unaffected in such a Severe cyclone, said S.M. Yunus, General Secretary of ten-acre Shrimp Cultuilsts Association.
Noman visits affected areas
Another report from Cox's Bazar adds : State Minister for Fisheries Livestocks and Environment Abdullah Al-Noman on Saturday some cyclone and tidal surge hit areas of
Chakaria here and supervised relief and rehabilitation works there.
He also held a meeting at the Chakaria upazila headquarters with the upazila officials and local leaders where he said that the government would not tolerate any Irregularity in distribution of relief and rehabilitation materials.
He instructed the concerned officials to put Into operation 40 power pumps allotted, to Chakaria upazila Immediately. Noman visited Sowda-gar Ghana near the upazila headquarters and saw relief activities there.
He also distributed some relief materials among the affected people.